Wednesday 15 October 2008

I'm still here



It's been a while I know, but progress has been made. My Rosemary sweater is finished, and so is the Cabled Spiral sweater. I'm happy with them both. I added some rows of single crochet rib to the neckline of the Rosemary sweater and overlapped them in the middle in an effort to stop the gaping. This worked well and it sits nicely. The colour is more accurate in the first picture, a dark olive green.

This picture is of the almost complete Cabled Spiral. Now it has a slightly longer neckband and is ready for blocking. The pattern is written for a polo neck, but I always find them too warm, so I've shortened it, hopefully without spoiling the finished look. Modifications I made: added more garter ridges on the hem to counteract the tendency to roll. Also, I did just a little waist shaping, just visible in the picture.

This is a blocking picture of the yoke, the colour is more accurate in the whole sweater picture.

Now I have to decide what to make next. I only have one sock going at the moment and I just discovered an error in it which I'm hoping I can fix without ripping out more than 2". It is knitted with the green hand dyed sock yarn left over from Mystic Meadows, and I'm using a garter rib pattern.

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