Its all true, the boogie girl is real, and you've found her. She knits, sews, spins, does pottery and writes it all down in this blog.
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Presenting... Rosedale.
I know, it's a bad picture but I'm too busy at the moment to get a good one. Eventually I'll take a better one for my permanent files here.
Based on the pattern Rosedale from Knitty.
Noro colorway 80
Changes: I didn't do the intarsia and I lengthened the sleeves because I like my sleeves to go to my knuckles.
I made the medium size but I blocked the hell out of it, lengthening it overall and making it smaller. I have a problem of overestimating my size (even with measurements, I think, "now that can't be right"). I should have made the small.
I added the largest zipper I had but I will eventually take it out and add a different one. I hate this zipper. Maybe that's why it was sitting at the bottom of my zipper bin.
I've always done raglans from the top down. I really like doing them bottom up. Its nice to start with the sleeves and to end knitting with decreasing amounts of stitches. Makes it seem like the end is moving faster. I will definately be making another sweater similar to this. I have a couple of full skeins of Noro left and a bunch of scraps. I'm not in love with Noro. Sure I like it enough but there are others that I like better. I think in the fall I'll make myself another from my handspun, maybe with cables or something.
I've been sewing like mad and glazing pottery too. I've almost got that flax cup ready to fire an we'll see how it looks. Not much knitting to speak of.