The Dreaded Stockinette Curl

sanpoku2, originally uploaded by iron knitter.

Okay, so I knit Berroco's "Sanpoku," substituting Comfort for the Touche (or Ultra Alpaca) specified in the pattern. See their pattern photos here: http://www.berroco.com/255.262/262/262_sanpoku_touche_pv.html

Look how their edges curl on the front: completely counter to how stockinette naturally curls. To see how stockinette naturally curls, look at my sweater photo.

So I email Berroco:

" I have recently knit Sanpoku, substituting Comfort. Now that it is done, I cannot see how you got the panels to curl inward at the top -
this is counter to how stockinette curls, and mine curls outward. Even with blocking, I don't see how you got the piece to hang the way it does. Any tricks?"

And here is the answer I (quickly) got:

"Hi Catherine,
Sorry no tricks. Comfort is nylon/acrylic. It's not going to
block, you shouldn't iron it, it just makes it limp. The Touche is
cotton/rayon so it act totally different."

Evidently cotton/rayon Touche curls toward the purl side at the bound-off edge. I think not. I can believe blocking it so hard that you get it to lay flat. But I don't see how to get it to drape that way. I'm double-hosed because you can't iron Comfort (unless you want to "kill" it).

I wonder if they sewed it down.

I've put my head together with Judy, the owner of my LYS, Baskets of Yarn, in Onalaska, WI (www.basketsofyarn.net). She thought of using a more elastic cast-on and bind-off, or putting a crochet edge on the bound-off edge...or tacking it down to the inside. Once I stop being so mad at the sweater, I'll think about which of these to attack first (NOT the one that involves taking the sweater apart, thank you).

Bad bionic blogger. No biscuit.

Okay, so I have failed to post. I have unwittingly deleted photos from Flickr which were on my blog. And I have only, today, found out that I have comments on my blog, some of them months old.

Duh.

So: Visian ICL. I am now bionic. I have implanted lenses under my irises...and I can see! I was about, oh, say, 20/600 before the surgery, and worse -9 to -9.5 contacts. Now I'm 20/20 with both eyes. Huzzah! There is much rejoicing (and I may have to eat the minstrals).

I am still learning not to grab my pager or alarm clock and set it on my nose to read it in the middle of the night. I then go, "Why is it so blurry??" Old habits die hard.