Sometimes you just get lucky!

Finishing up the left front of the cardigan for Kat.  Fortunately, I have nieces close by in the same age bracket so will be able to gauge sizes from there until I get measured dimentions.  In the mean time, I am now certain that I will have to knit an insert between the fronts and the back.

That's a little hint/tip/technique I happened upon when a friend of mine brought me a book of patterns and asked me to knit her a suit.  Unfortunately, the two machines I have wouldn't accomodate the yarn she wanted to use.  It was LOVELY but too fine to use on a mid-gauge or bulky machine.

However,!!! that same pattern book showed me that you can do an insert to compensate when you don't have enough needles on your knitting bed.  Rather like doing a blanket in panels.  It ends up looking as if it's part of the design.  Fortunately, since I'm making this sans pattern, it IS part of the design.
OH, I just bought "Sweater Wizard" yesterday.  It's on sale at the source, on Amazon, eBay and strangely on Overstock.com.

http://www.software4knitting.com/  I found it here.  The "inventors" are really nice people do deal with.  In any event.  After agonizing over the loss of my Knitware program for months, this looks to be an excellent replacement.  I bought if from the Sweater Wizard people even thought it was more expensive.  They have it for 20% off at the moment.  It's way less expensive than some of the other programs out there.  When they have upgrades they give excellent discounts for those who have already bought the program.

It was so sad when I found that I had bought a program that would no longer be updated and was only fit for a 32 bit program use.  Everything is now 64 bit.  I only have a rudimentary idea of what that means.  Knitware was an excellent program.  SO, I was left to either find another program or figure it out by my own self.  That latter is not my best choice.

A month or so back I tried the Hat Wizard from "Knitting Software" and liked it.  So when push came to shove, I decided I would give their Sweater Wizard a try.  Talk about your day late and dollar short.  I could have used the Sweater Wizard to figure out how to make Kat's sweater without all this hullabaloo I've been going through.   I'm really looking forward to using this new software for knitting patterns.

I'll post pictures of the current progress later.

Toodles