I'm a detail person. I don't think I get caught up in details to the detriment of the big picture, but I like it when attention is paid to the little things. Like this.
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| View through the glass of our bedroom window of the wall next door |
Details count for a lot in knitting. It matters to me that cables on the right half of a sweater are mirrored on the left half, that little motifs are echoed, and that the coming together of body and sleeves at the underarm flows together tidily.
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| View of underarm of Wakefield jacket |
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| Cuff of Wakefield jacket |
In my new "Perth Cardi" (yes, that's the name I've chosen), one of the details is a centred double decrease down the underside of the sleeves.
But, although I've been doing this type of decrease for years, I realized that I didn't know the standard abbreviation for it (or even if there was a standard abbreviation). Thank goodness for the internet. Honestly, how did we cope before? A bit of quick research and this is what I found--"cdd". A centred double decrease means to slip 2tog, k1, pass the slipped stitches over (together).
Here's a great video of it.
I also found out that CDD stands for Canadians for Direct Democracy, the scientific journal "Cell Death and Differentiation", and Capability Development Document, a document used by the U.S. military when making decisions about equipment. Who knew?
