For anyone that uh, wanted one (although I'm sure there are others out there, I just figured I'd document my pocket). Basically, I just followed Jacqueline Fee's method which was actually EZ's method, but I took pictures. This is me putting the second (left) pocket into my Imogen. These pockets are vertical, rather than horizontal, so I made slanted pockets so that they wouldn't be perpendicular to my body. So the first thing that I did was decide where I wanted the pockets to go and where the middle stitch would be. My mom helped with that, as I needed a person looking at me rather than looking down at the sweater. I put a coil-less safety pin in that stitch.
Then, I cut half of that stitch.
And I unraveled nine stitches to the left and nine stitches to the right so I had a hole my hand could go through.
And picked up the stitches on two circular needles. Then, I started sewing my slanted pocket, see:
Perhaps I should have waited until my pocket was a bit longer so that you could see more of its slant, but I was excited. The directions say to purl the bottom edge I think, I ended up purling the side the back of my hand would be against (rather than the palm-side) for a crisp edge. And to get it to slant, I made my increases on the "bottom" side of the pocket and my decreases on the "top" side.Tonight I was hoping to finish the pocket (via Kitchener), but the kids had a play date at a museum this morning and were too hopped up to sleep in the afternoon, so there was no time for knitting today (boo hoo). So hopefully tomorrow.
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