I finally finished my sweater. This pattern is from Vogue's Knit.1 magazine Spring/Summer 2005 using LB's Homespun. I started this back in June and was done knitting the sleeves, back and front side pieces but needed to join them together. I started with the shoulders and was not liking what was happening with my sweater. I proceeded though to add the first sleeve and as I finished sewing it in and adjusted the sweater to look at my work I saw disaster. The sleeve was horribly offset. I couldn't figure out what had happened but I lost the ability to continue. It looked as though all of my knitting was lost. I dejectedly removed the seam to sew in the sleeve.
So the sweater sat unfinished in my wips bag until last night when I carefully measured and pinned and remeasured and adjusted the pins to set in the sleeve. It worked ok, so then the next sleeve, and then the side seams! Then I just needed to knit on the front ribbing around the edges and weave the ends. It came out better than I ever imagined after my first set back. I just have to find the perfect button!
3 comments:
it looks beautiful!
very cute!!
just so u know...k and i were at the mall yesterday and we saw a sweater that was knit(not by hand of course) the pattern was almot exactly like urs. we figured u can start selling ur clothes to sears (where we saw the sweater) it was selling for like $26.00. lol.
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