On Aunt Mildred's Porch: Knit One, Purl Two

Friday, November 25, 2011

Knit One, Purl Two

For this Feel Good Friday, I'll show you some of my accomplishments that I feel pretty darned glad about finishing!

I've been a little busy with the pony hats and trying to dismantle and reassemble k-ster's winter coat (more on that later) among other tricks and treats. This is a neat corkscrew scarf that is available on my etsy. It's the craziest thing to knit. You start with like 100 stitches and when you're done, you have 720 on circular needles. I can't even explain why it works, but it's neat.

I like to think it's ironic that I'm modeling a scarf in a tank top.

I've made a couple of sweaters before, but they always look homemade. And this time, I was determined to use a lighter yarn. One that IS NOT acrylic.

That meant I had to go to a real yarn store and speak to real women about my real plan and cringe as they looked at me like I had no real business being there.

I found the pattern online and bought some washable wool. I get very itchy in all wool, but I thought this might be OK. It's very soft. So far.

And you buy it like this, which means you're serious about your work, right? No tube of Red Heart Yarn here!

After much confusion about assembling it, by the grace of God, it turned out looking like a real sweater!

I should fire my photographer, cutting off my face, like that!

The now common in my posts midriff shot. This was a mistake as I was setting the self timer, but it lets you see the detail better, right? RIGHT?

It still looks more homemade than I would like, but it's not bad. And my on the fly alterations worked just like I wanted. This sweater is VERY stretchy and that's a VERY good thing.

I went on youtube when I realized I had no idea how to sew raglan seams. The idea I got was so brilliant, I sewed all of my seams that way and removed the bulk. What did we do before youtube? Oh yeah, we started projects and threw them away when we couldn't figure them out.

I'm debating making another one but a little larger. I would like it to be a little looser. I'm not a tight sweater kind of person. I'm not a tight anything kind of person. My pants would say otherwise, but I do like this to flow a little more.

I didn't have to pay full price for the yarn because I bought a gift certificate super cheap at an auction. Now I have to think about what I want to do if I make another one.

K-ster has a Tommy Hilfiger coat that has nothing wrong with it, but the teeth on the zipper came out. I went to the cobbler but he said he couldn't do it and suggested I go to a seamstress.

Hellno!

I went to Joann fabrics and bought a parka zipper for like $4 with a coupon (maybe less after the coupon). The old one was a bitch to remove. It was sewn in a couple of different ways to make it look really pretty and neat and tidy.

I think I did a pretty decent job replacing it! I didn't fold it and sew it from a million different angles like Tommy did, but it's wearable and no one will know the difference.