FO: Vintage Plum

Although I finished this bad-girl a week or two ago, I felt like I should finally post it here. I just found a free pattern for a top-down raglan sweater, so... I'll be testing that out soon! Yay! No sewing. :-) My mom's b-day is coming up, So I think I better get a move on with that!

Sleeves-- missing in action!

Well, here's the progress report. Everyone is counting on the sleeves to work out now. It's either a make it or break it kind of thing. Doing this in the round was great! I hate sewing, so only sewing the shoulders and sleeves is the only way to go! I would definately do this sweater again. I would add more stitches so that the ribbing on the bottom doesn't have to expand so much. I mean, it fits and all, but I like the closer ribbing look. I would also make the shoulders have more material-- meaning more length from neck to shoulder. However, this sweater was soo easy to make. The hardest part was picking up stitches for the collar. As you can see, there is a weird little glitch almost in the middle before the collar ribbing. I was thinking. If the decreasing looked a little more controled around the arm, it would make a great tanktop sweater. That would be a reall easy knit!

The 1930's...Revisited

So, ok...the first sweater that I knit was a hit...

But, however, it's much too heavy and I have turned on my favorite color. However, this one should be much better. I plan to not do the 2x2 ribbing on the top, and just making it a plain an simple vintage sweater. This time, i'm working in the round-- a much more practical way to go about this whole thing. Why should I have to sew and keep messing with needle switching at the end of each round? Once I get to the BO's, I will then work on each side with two needles. The sweater really is bigger. It's just bunched up a lot around the wire. The ribbing on the bottom actually is a whopping 4 1/2'' instead of about 3''. I'm using the knit picks options circ's, so the sizing is a little bit bigger than normal needles, for some reason. It would almost be size 11 US fof the body and size 9 Us for the ribbing. I used Red Heart's "soft yarn," instead of Barnet's "softee chunky," so it's not stiff like the other. It will feel like a normal sweater. And, this was all done today. Yeah, I haven't been doing too much other than knitting. Lucky for me, today was a light reading day for... oh yeah "school." That's why im here....

1930's and the knitty

This baby is my first sweater ever. It's a little bulky, but maybe i'll take it out for a while. The style is a vintage 1930's look. It was a pretty fast knit, however, it did not live up to its "3-hour-sweater" title. Don't mind my weird facial expression. I was looking extraordinarily pale that day.