February | 2007 | ashley-elva.com

My Frieda sweater is almost done. I finished the front on Friday, and worked on the last sleeve Saturday and Sunday. I was really worried about the fit in the chest, but when I tried it on it fit perfectly. My only complaint is how baggy the sleeves are in the upper arm. I contemplated rewriting the sleeve pattern, but that would also involve rewriting the armhole on the body, which I really didn’t feel like doing. All that is left is to finish the turtleneck now.

I also finished a hat for my brother 2 weekends ago.

Yarn: Paton’s SWS
Pattern: My own top down hat pattern with a knitted hem
Started: February 16th
Finished: February 18th

I love this yarn. Its a soy and wool blend, and is really wonderful. The striping is really good, and it comes in 85 gram balls, so all I needed was 1 ball for the hat.

Pattern: Madeline from White Lies Designs
Yarn: Lion Cashmere Blend in light blue, I used all but 15 grams of the 12 balls I had.
Needles: size 9 circulars
Started: January 9th
Finished: February 13th

The only modifications I made were to shorten the sleeves and I changed the lace panel on the back a bit. The project was a really fun knit for the body, but when I finished that part, I was left with 3 balls of yarn to do both sleeves. So the sleeves were knit about half the length the pattern called for, which didn’t end up being a bad thing, but for a while there I was constantly thinking I would run out of yarn.

After blocking, the whole sweater went from a 40″ diameter to a 48″, I assume because of all the garter stretching out, and the yarn itself I knew would get larger after blocking. I deliberately knit the 40″ size instead of the 44″ because of this, and I couldn’t be happier with the fit. Its large but not too large, and the drape is really nice. The only thing left to do is get a decorative pin. Its currenly fastened with a safety pin which pulls the stitches a bit and needs to be adjusted every 20 minutes. I was so happy with the sweater that I wore it to work Wednesday, and everyone at work liked it too, 2 women wanting to know where they could get the pattern.

Tuesday we had crazy snow and so I spent most of the days in my pajamas working on Madeline and this guy:

The pattern is Henry from Jess Hutch’s Unusual Toys for You to Knit and Enjoy. Its a pretty quick pattern. The yarn I had on hand lent itself to halloween, so my version of Henry is a pirate in a striped shirt. I’ll knit him a little pirate hat too, once I figure that out.

Monthly archives: February 2007

Almost there

FO: Madeline