wiki’d sweater
Originally uploaded by Xao_T
I finally finished a Wicked! This sweater pattern’s been haunting me for almost 2 years. I tried it in two different cotton yarns, and frogged it both times, and then had a conversation with a very experienced knitter about cotton, and she gave me the idea that maybe the pattern wasn’t to blame, but my fiber choice. She was right!
This is done in Cascade 220, and it fits a little loosely on me, but the shaping keeps it from looking floppy. I like oversized vesty things and this works perfectly. In the pic, I’m wearing it over a black cashmere turtleneck & it looked pretty good! A nice, transitional piece for late winter into spring, and then into fall again.
In other news, I’ve been making various salad dressings with Vegenaise, and I can’t say enough about this shit. It’s awesome. It tastes just like mayo! I heart Vegenaise. Oh, and pineapple. I’ve had about half a pineapple this afternoon. Something about detoxing myself from the effects of the Horrible Cold: I wanted cole slaw, pineapple, and a big handful of dried cherries. Must be needing some nutrients, so I went with it.
I also made the evilest daikon radish pickles on the face of the Earth. They’re so salty, gingery, and vinegary that your hair stands on end, but you want more of them anyway. I think my fingers will be swollen tomorrow, they’re THAT salty. Evil!
It was a good weekend.
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The sweater is wonderful (and let me tell you, I have no patience for knitting sweaters), but I want to know where you got that skirt! I LOVE it!
Well, dang!! Thank you so much!
I made the skirt from a couple of yards of woolen tweed: it’s a very basic a-line skirt, and I used the lower half of a felted sweater instead of a waistband. The felty dots at the bottom are…felty dots, actually. If you’re interested, I’ll try and do a demo of how it’s made…it was a fun project!
Oh that would be GREAT. I make a lot of my own skirts anyway (pants. Lots and lots of former pants.) So any new way of making skirts is ALWAYS welcome.
I wish I had the patience to knit sweaters. It’s hard enough for me to finish hats. Ha.
oh, good! well, you’ve motivated me to write it up…thanks!
I actually find that hats take more patience from me than sweaters do. I think I have to pay more attention with hats, or they become huge. With sweaters, I pay fierce attention to the shaping, and then there’s these long sections of “just knit until the piece measures 1 billion inches long”, and then I can just whip through without thinking about it.
Of course, that’s not to say that the very long Kaino vest I’m knitting isn’t boring the crap out of me, because it is, it is.