Mulberries in the Snow

My senior year in college, probably like most colleges, I had to have submit a photograph for the yearbook.  I asked a friend, who was a very good photographer, to take the pictures for me.  She told me to wear my favorite garment as long as it wasn't purple.  She told me it was very hard to photograph purple well.  There was something about the way purples absorbed and reflected light, although I don't really remember the details. (photographers may please chime in here).  

Unfortunately my favorite colors seem to all be shades of purple and this conversation keeps echoing through my mind as I keep trying to photograph purple garments and rarely capturing the color in its true glory.  Of course, I am also a very unskilled photographer so perhaps this too will improve with practice.

Project: Mulberries in the Snow

Pattern: Drops sleeveless dress 108-7, a free download from the Drops website.

Yarn:  Misti Alpaca Chunky knitted tighter than its recommended gauge at 15 stitches and 19 rows per 4 inches.

Changes made to the pattern:  I added a bust dart to accommodate my DD chest and I lengthened the torso by 1 inch.  The length was added in the ribbed section at the waist, which is supposed to extend down onto the hips, as it clearly does here.

Things I would do differently were I to make this dress again: I am basically very happy with this dress.  However, the pattern illustration shows the area above the ribbing ending just below the bustline.  I knitted this to exactly the length specified in the pattern above the ribbing but before beginning the armhole shaping (6 inches) and although it looks okay, I think it would look much better if I had shortened this area to 4 inches, or perhaps even less, so that the ribbing came up higher on the ribcage as shown here in this photo from Drops.

More photos are available over at my flickr page or on Ravelry.  They were not, however, taken before I managed to weave in those few annoying yarn ends that seem to have shown up in all my photos.