After knitting about four or five inches of length, I got tired of counting out the 8th row, and the 16th row, and the whatever 8 more [...]]]>
Here’s my fourth and final attempt at knitting my denim blue alpaca bamboo rib top-down V-neck raglan sweater and I’m finally quite happy with every stinking detail.

After knitting about four or five inches of length, I got tired of counting out the 8th row, and the 16th row, and the whatever 8 more rows is, on and on so I’d know where to put the increased stitch at each end of every 8th row.

Somewhere in this house is a little box of these clippy kind of stitch markers, but it’s hiding. Luckily I had two of them attached to a knitting bag handle. Here’s what I came up with and it’s working great. I put a stitch marker through a stitch near the center of the last two increase rows so I can easily see when I’ve arrived at the proper distance to make another side-increases row.

Life is good. Once I got the ribbing established in the first few rows, this pattern became just right for keeping me interested without being so complex I need to hyper focus.

As I cast on for this sweater (How many times? Never mind.), I yearned for one like this in a raspberry color. Now as the rows keep getting longer and longer, thinking of doing sweater number two like this is too daunting. Just focus on this one, please. I don’t even remember if there was a raspberry color in this yarn on eBay.