Yarn Along #3: Light At the End of the T-Shirt

Another week without a proper post: hopefully things turn around in that regard.  It's still been crazy around my house.  Dad's home from his hip replacement and healing nicely, and my hubby and I have been fielding help requests and been requesting updates.  Seems like he's feeling way better than he did before surgery, so YAY!

I didn't get to finish the shirt this weekend like I hoped, so you get another week of looking at it! Aren't you guys just so excited?

THE CRAFT: Round #3 of AB's Playground Shirt is upon us, but we're so very, very close to completion.

Current Progress on the Shirt

This is where we stand right now.  Magic Loop is still working well for me for those sleeves, and I'm getting pretty antsy to start the collar.  I'm thinking I'm going to make it that grape-purple like the edging I've done, mostly to break up the rows up on rows of variegation.

Completed Sleeve (...and my rings...)

I'm loving how it finishes off the sleeves, though!  I edged it (and the bottom) in a single crochet; I also used a single crochet bind-off as that's the one I'm most comfortable with.  I like the feel it gives to the sleeves: it reminds me a bit of the hem on the edges of other sleeves.

...I also just like crocheting...a lot...

Bottom Edging: When Not Rolled

Though I still love the edging on the end of the shirt, I'm not completely sold on it.  My big beef with this is how much the bottom rolls from the stockinette, even with the single crochet row.  Now, I know I can do garter stitch rows to help tame this. However, I despise garter row edging for a whole slew of purely-aesthetic reasons, and I didn't think ribbing would look okay with the rest of the shirt.  I also worry how this acrylic yarn will block.  I really fear it's not going to tame that roll near as much as, say, a cotton or a woolen garment blocked would.

I'm considering doing another row of single crochet across the bottom, going in the opposite direction of the first, to see if that stabilizes it; it's also to help match the sleeves, whose purple borders are a row longer due to a brain-fart.  Thoughts?  Should I be this concerned?  Will the rolling be way less noticeable when AB wears it?

THE BOOK: We're also still reading The 19th Wife.  I've only gotten a few more pages into it since I wrote about it last, so I don't have much to offer there.  Though I hate history in general, I'm love Ann Eliza's accounts of her past and how the author intersperses historical documents into his narrative.  I'm really enjoying it more than I thought!

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