With incredible determination I finished the lopi lace sweater during the weekend. I had been postponing it for a while because I’m not the biggest enthusiast about sewing, as I’ve mentioned before. But having unfinished business bothers me so I met the challenge. That was a good thing because I learned the coolest thing in my Vogue Knitting book. Since this is my first knitted item that needs sewing I wanted to check out whether there are any special rules on which types of stitches you should use for sleeves. Then I encountered the slip stitch crochet and man did that make me happy! Although I have never crocheted anything except borders on lopi sweaters, I truly love it, it’s one of the most fun things I can think of. Being able to crochet the sleeves onto the body thus made me one happy girl. Suddenly, knitting in pieces doesn’t sound like an alltogether unreasonable thing to do.
I am however a bit ambivalent about the actual sweater. I find it a bit too big for me. It’s not that I’m not on gauge, the smallest size obviously just isn’t small enough. I do not have the bust size to pull off this deep V neck as you can clearly see
I had somehow imagined it to be a very tight fitting number, but what I didn’t realize is that in order for that to happen it would be wise to knit it quite a bit smaller than ones actual bust size. The sleeves also bother me a bit. I have done some (machine) sewing in the past, I even learned how to draw up patterns, so I know how sleeves are shaped. This one here has almost no shaping at all, which means that the shoulder part reaches down the upper arm and it somehow exaggerates the width of my shoulders. This does not look good on me, as my womanly shaping is not all that pronounced and wide shoulders make me look even less like a woman, or girl as I like to call myself.
Oh well, there are always birthdays and christmas.
This is what there’s left of the yarn, now what can I make of it?
Mjög falleg peysa engu að síður og sýnir enn og aftur hversu flink þú ert. Þetta sem þú talar um sést auðvitað ekki svo vel á þessar mynd, ætlaði einmitt að fara að segja (áður en ég las) að þú gætir nú vel módellast í þessum bæklingi sem peysan var í, því hún er falleg og fer þér vel, fallegri STELPUNNI :).
Ástarkveðjur
Bryndís
Comment by Bryndís — Tuesday, March 21, 2006 @ 6:00 pm
Já, peysan er falleg, og þú ert flott í henni!!! En ég veit hvað þú meinar með axlirnar, það hefði liklega farið betur á að taka aðeins úr á bolnum fyrir ermunum og móta ermarnar. Ég prjónaði einu sinni svoleiðis þrönga hneppta V-hálmálspeysu og hún fer mjög vel. Uppskriftin var úr Storkinum. En afgangurinn? Hehe, búðu til dúsk á símann þinn! Annars koma svona afgangar alltaf að góðum notum síðar. Hvað ertu annars að gera um páskana? Ég verð komin út til Svíþjóðar. Var svona að velta því fyrir mér hvenær ég ætti að kíkja yfir til Helsinki.
Comment by Sigurlaug — Wednesday, March 22, 2006 @ 1:43 pm
Were you sweating it while you were knitting, wondering if you’ll need another skein of yarn and not sure you can find the same dye lot? Beautiful work. Congratulations!
Comment by JRtheKnitter — Thursday, March 23, 2006 @ 12:35 am
I agree with everyone else, the sweater is very pretty and you look great in it. I don’t think it fits poorly at all.
Comment by Rebecca — Thursday, March 23, 2006 @ 5:16 am
I think that the sweater looks terrific on you. Maybe wear it a couple of times and see if your opinion changes? This is what I did with the last sweater I completed, and I liked it much better after a wear or two. Beautiful work!
Comment by Amy M. — Friday, March 24, 2006 @ 12:45 am