A rather longish time ago, I posted that I had started work on Tubey, a cute and easy sweater pattern from last fall’s issue of Knitty. I actually finished the knitting in early May sometime, wove in the yarn ends and such at the end of May and blocked the thing sometime earlier this month:
Still, though the temperature has been approximately twenty below on average in my office, and despite the fact that I could actually make use of the sweater this summer, the garment was not quite finished to my liking. Until today:
Though I dutifully followed the advice of people on the Tubey Knitalong, knitting the body tube on smaller size needles, the front still hung open a little too loose for my liking. I took in the outer edges of the neckline, and think it suits me a little better, now that I can wear it and bend over without flashing everyone. Huzzah! I’ve knit a sweater!
Other things I’ve knit, that are postable:
A stuffed bunny toy for Abigail as a graduation gift.
(Blurry) work-in-progress Irish Hiking Scarf for the boy, for the cold winter days in northern Germany.
Things I’ve knit that aren’t postable:
Two, count ‘em, two versions of a knockoff Anthropologie capelet, by Craftster.org’s Julsey. All the posted, finished versions looked so great and I was so jealous, I bought yarn for it as soon as I could get off work and go to the store, even though the only similar-weight yarn they had available was acrylic. When the first version didn’t work out, I figured it was the yarns fault, and tried again with KnitPicks Sierra. Nope. Still kind of lumpy and dowdy looking. I guess I could block it, but the problem is that I didn’t do the measurements right (yeah, both times) and knit it too large. I’ll try ripping back a few rows, but it’s so much harder to fix something that has been Bound Off. Not physically difficult so much as mentally. Once it is Bound Off with capital letters, the yarn is done, kaput, and it is no longer pretty with potential, but besmirched and spoiled yarn in a lumpy mass of fiber. Maybe I’ll commission the boy to frog the entire thing while I’m not looking.
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Tubey looks great! Congratulations!
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[...] As with Tubey, it’s been so hot these past few weeks that even touching yarn leaves wool-charred welts on my skin. We seem to be experiencing a brief respite from above 100+ degree temperatures (who would have thought that the mid-90’s would seem cool now?), so the capelet has emerged from the chaos of my unorganized, fully stocked closet. [...]
[...] I’m still optimistic about this working out, superstitions be damned. Though I’m in vague apprehension of the armhole shaping part. I should also probably mention that I’ve only knit one sweater before this: Tubey, a really easy pattern, replete with helpful schematics and tons of knitalongs and such. And none of this crazy armhole shaping / set-in sleeves business. From Google searching and the like, I haven’t been able to find a single person who has finished Leo and posted the results online (well, besides the pattern designer herself). Brilliant. Keep your needles crossed for me. [...]
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