oh it has been quite a week. my workplace is slowly but surely closing down due to the danish immigration policy and i have been busy writing applications for new jobs. went to one job interview today and i am going to another tomorrow. hopefully everything will be solved by the week after next week when my holiday starts with a gig with rufus wainwright.
but this is a knitting blog. and there has been knitting (as elizabeth's motto goes: knit on with confidence through all crises) and there will be more knitting. i am apparently a serial knitter so i have finished the last fair isle yoke in a trio of fair isle yokes for grandmother, daughter, granddaughter. and this is by far the cutest. i will have alba modelling it very soon and post pics. i got the yoke decreases a little wrong so i made up my own ( no blind follower am i) and the end result looks good. i made the sleeves as elizabeth says: rib like mad and increase severely to 40 % of K. i like a blousy sleeve for a little person. it looks really cute. the sleeves are long but i guess that the arms are growing faster than the cheeks at this age when the little girl starts to walk and such. and she is a very active little girl who does things she is not supposed to do yet, just like the bumblebee.
and now i think i will start a series of saddle shoulder arans.... although i made a slip stitch pattern swatch yesterday and i love the effect and may do further experiments.
4 comments:
It looks great and I can't wait to see it on the model!
It looks great! Sorry about the job crises... that's why we knit!
I can't wait to see it modeled!
Wow! and Wow! sigh - I'm going to try my hand at a garment someday. This sweater is beautiful!
Do you mind telling us what brand of alpaca you use? I'd like to do one in alpaca, too, but the only one I really like at my LYS is Blue Sky Alpaca ($$$).
Good luck with your job search!
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