Rolly bottom

The fact that I didn't start the sweater properly means that it's got a rolly bottom. Nothing I can do about that until I go back and give it a nice hem or rib or something. Stocking stitch is not, by nature, a flat beast. It curls at the edges. It's very nice that there are ways to make it lie flat. I need to choose one, though -- not my strong point.

I took a picture of the rolly edge early on, but, of course, the instant that I had set the sweater down in a nice sunny place, it had company. That's the ever-obliging kitty, who sat on that sweater pretty much all day. It made it hard for me to do the photography, but even harder for me to do any knitting. She knows what she's doing.

As for how to finish the bottom, I think I'll do a few (very few) rows of plain black ribbing. I'm not keen on the idea of doing corrugated ribbing because if I'm going to include every colour it'll need to be quite long. I don't really want it to be long. I don't want the edges to be a significant eye-catching part of the design. I want the fair-isle patterning to be what the sweater does, and that's it.