Oh my, the back of Mine has been completed for a week and I have forgotten to post. I am about 1/4 of the way up the front, perhaps 1/3, but I haven't really checked. I was really happy with the project and the way the knitted fabric was working up — I really love the fabric produced by this Rowan Bamboo Tape. It really is too bad it was discontinued. I should have bought more. I love the way that my other sweater in this yarn, Granite, wears
But back to Mine. As I was saying, I was really happy with it until I laid it out o the cutting table to take a picture. Now I am having doubts.
Looking at it spread out flat it looks too short and too wide, not that I didn't know that this was the basic shape, but that my thinking may have been clouded by my dreams of how I wanted it to look.
But it may work. I have been skeptical before and been proven wrong. I shall finish knitting the front and then see how it turn out.
I haven't ordered the beads for the neckline yet, and I do want the beads along the neckline. I am wondering if I should bother — perhaps I won't like the finished sweater. I can order them after I put it together. But then again, if I sew it up and like it I will want to wear it immediately. I have the perfect pants and top just waiting in the wings and it will be terribly frustrating to wait for the beads.
I suppose I shall order them anyway; surely I will find some other use for them.
Not much other progress. I haven't even looked at the pile of UFOs yet, despite my promises to sort them as soon as I got back from Knoxville.
The new Vogue Knitting arrived today and I have only looked at it very briefly; I am not yet sure what I think, my initial impressions are somewhat cautious. I will update you on that shortly.
The yarn swift needs some surgery as well. I had planned to get to that today but after steaming a sweater back into shape to wear tomorrow, I decided that I was much more inclined to paint my nails. So I read about the frivolous thoughts of the 14 year old Katherine Howard (fictionalized of course) while I pursued my own frivolities and admired my fingernails.
Knitting tonight. More later.