Tuesday
Jul072009
The Wrong Way...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 8:44PM
...to share an FO, but hey, I needed to share it. Something seems to be wrong with my camera 8-( I really hope I can get it working to take better pictures. These pics were taken with my Blackberry Curve from work. They don't show off the pretty dress like I'd hoped, but it's not too bad. I haven't added the ribbon for the empire waist yet, I'll do sometime this week, hopefully by then my camera will be working!
I made this as an emergency knit for my family friend's daughter's 1 yr. bday. Size I knitted was the 18month, and the body of the dress was knit with Sundara Aran Silky in Cotton Candy. This yarn is totally luscious to knit with, literally. The darker, contrasting yarn is from a Woolgirl Seven Deadly Sins kit I received for "Lux yarn" colors 3 & 4. The Lux yarn is fingering, so I double stranded the yarn to match the gauge of the Aran Silky. Worked out perfectly. I have a good amount of notes from the pattern, which is in "Easy Baby Knits" book. The pattern is done in 2 pieces, front and back. It is a simple pattern, a wee bit worded funky but after a few re-reads, I got the jist. I have one big pickle with the pattern, both pieces start off with "x" number of stitches, and slowly decrease up the dress body. This doesn't seem like a big deal, right? All decreases are done at the end of the row, last 2 stitches, what happens is when seaming, it's very difficult to neatly seam up straight when you have one side that is straight, no decreases, seaming with a side that isn't straight and has decreases. The seaming was the most frustrating part for me. One side is perfectly seamed, literally invisible, the other side isn't so invisible. I seamed, unseamed, and seamed, and unseamed count it 3x! After the 3rd, I finally said last try, the stress was starting to wear on the material, luckily the last try came out the best. I actually had to sacrifice some of the edge of the body because I decided to seam the straight (non-decrease side) with a column about 2 columns in from the edgy of the uneven side.
After working on this, I think the pattern would've been better in the round, as one piece. The pattern is so simple, knitting in the round would fix the issues with the decreases. Oh well, in the end it turned out fine.
Oooh, and I need to share my Karma tank!!! But that definitely has to wait until the camera ordeal is figured out.....
Happy Tuesday Everyone!
~Rocky
I made this as an emergency knit for my family friend's daughter's 1 yr. bday. Size I knitted was the 18month, and the body of the dress was knit with Sundara Aran Silky in Cotton Candy. This yarn is totally luscious to knit with, literally. The darker, contrasting yarn is from a Woolgirl Seven Deadly Sins kit I received for "Lux yarn" colors 3 & 4. The Lux yarn is fingering, so I double stranded the yarn to match the gauge of the Aran Silky. Worked out perfectly. I have a good amount of notes from the pattern, which is in "Easy Baby Knits" book. The pattern is done in 2 pieces, front and back. It is a simple pattern, a wee bit worded funky but after a few re-reads, I got the jist. I have one big pickle with the pattern, both pieces start off with "x" number of stitches, and slowly decrease up the dress body. This doesn't seem like a big deal, right? All decreases are done at the end of the row, last 2 stitches, what happens is when seaming, it's very difficult to neatly seam up straight when you have one side that is straight, no decreases, seaming with a side that isn't straight and has decreases. The seaming was the most frustrating part for me. One side is perfectly seamed, literally invisible, the other side isn't so invisible. I seamed, unseamed, and seamed, and unseamed count it 3x! After the 3rd, I finally said last try, the stress was starting to wear on the material, luckily the last try came out the best. I actually had to sacrifice some of the edge of the body because I decided to seam the straight (non-decrease side) with a column about 2 columns in from the edgy of the uneven side.
After working on this, I think the pattern would've been better in the round, as one piece. The pattern is so simple, knitting in the round would fix the issues with the decreases. Oh well, in the end it turned out fine.
Oooh, and I need to share my Karma tank!!! But that definitely has to wait until the camera ordeal is figured out.....
Happy Tuesday Everyone!
~Rocky
tagged Knitted Dress Sundara Yarn Cotton Candy in FO's!, Garments
Knitted Dress Sundara Yarn Cotton Candy in FO's!, Garments