Tension

 

I've gotten quite a bit more work done on my Sipila pullover.  I'm more than halfway through the charted yoke at this point.  When I knit in the round, I usually keep my needle length much smaller than the circumference of the knitting.  It means bunching the stitches up on the needles, but it also means that the piece sort of naturally rotates around the needles without me having to rearrange it very much myself.  On this project, I'm trying to keep my needle length very close to the actual knitting size because I think it helps with tensioning the floats in the color work.  It does mean I have to manually move the project around on the needles, but if I don't get my tension right, I'll have to re-knit this section, which would take longer.

I'm staying focused on this until I finish the color work yoke because I don't want my tension to change.  If you have a lot of down time in the middle of a project, your tension can be very different when you pick it up again.  In stranded color work that can be a huge problem.  So no stars for a bit and the front of Relax Two is on hold.  Footie socks are working like little palate cleansers for now, but I still hope to finish the yoke part of this sweater over the weekend.