To Bobble or not to Bobble

 

As you see, I am making great progress on the Blue Sky Alpaca Cropped Turtleneck.  I finished the body and am just ready to start the second sleeve.  I am really enjoying the process of knitting this, even the bobbles.  Well, I always enjoy knitting bobbles.

If you look at the top of the photo, you will see a section of the body without bobbles.  This started off as an accident of sorts.  Since I am knitting the sweater side to side, I was also knitting the body simultaneously.  I noticed that I had left the bobbles off on side at one of the repeats and was all ready to rip back and fix the problem when I started thinking -- and you know that can be a problem.

I realized that although I love bobbles, and I like the way they look on the sweater, I would probably not appreciate bobbles at the base of my neck in back.  Since I am lacking the normal lordotic curvature at the top of the spine, I often have trouble with things that seem to press on my neck, especially when I am sitting in cars, where head rests are all designed to provide support for the normal spinal curvature.  The bobbles would drive me crazy.

 

Since it just happened that I was approaching the center of the sweater, I decided to leave them off for 3 repeats.  I wonder now if I should have left them off for the entire back of the body, but think this isn't bad and at least it is balanced.   

This is going well.  I hope to finish it before we leave for Knoxville next Tuesday, but there are a lot of other things I wish to do before we leave for Knoxville as well, including work on some swatches for my traveling project(s).  If it is not done, I don't know if I will take it with me or not, as I don't think I will be wearing it on the trip and will have no place to block it anyway.  I have five days to make a decision.  A lot can happen in five days; or, as seems to be the case more often in my life, not enough can happen.

Comments

[Gina]

I vote to leave the lack of bobbles. I would also find them annoying at the base of my neck. Frankly, it looks perfectly planned -- a design feature. I can't believe you leave tomorrow. Have a safe drive and a wonderful visit.