Why work on an amazing fall sweater, what else.
Sept. 20th, 2010 I began working on Berroco Nonpariel, a birthday gift to myself that did not get finished in time. You see, I got that call from the design house in December, and stopped all work on non essential items until I finished all the pieces for the retail collection. . .
Then came Florealis Feet for http://www.knitpicks.com/
Then came Florealis Fingers for http://www.knitpicks.com
Then came Aragonia for http://www.knitpicks.com/
Then came The Gambler for http://www.knitpicks.com/
Then came The Kobi - eReader Cover for http://www.knitpicks.com/
Then came Apple of My Eyelet Fingerless Gloves for http://www.ravelry.com/
And I am now in the middle of Tranquility ~ Your Home Spa Collection, 3 pillows and an afghan, hoping to have it released by September 1, 2011
But as with every Sunday, it is an open knitting day, I have an agreement with myself, that this is the one day I can knit anything I want, with total disregard for deadlines, contracts, delays to other projects. Really, what difference will one day make?
With that said, I decided last night to pull out the Birthday sweater and see where I left off (hoping that I also took fantastic notes so I would be able to pick it up 8 months later). Well, the notes were fantastic, turns out I only had the Right Front to complete.
All pieces have been blocking today, and I will be ready to sew it up next Sunday and begin the edging and collar.
There are a few changes from the original pattern as follows:
1. Waist band was changed to the woven cable, try as I might, I just could not get my fingers to work out the pattern as written, even watched a video on it.l
2. length adjusted both from armhole to waist and waist to ribbing, wanted the waist to fall on my actual waist, not be an empire waistline.
Watch out for my next post, which hopefully will show the completed sweater!
