Restless Knitter

I don’t mean to disappear for long periods of time, it just happens once in awhile. Well, the project that wouldn’t be named is, I think, toast. It’s the Russian Coat from the Holiday 2007 issue of Vogue Knitting (see a picture here). It’s one size and, if knitted as written, would probably have swallowed me. I went down two needle sizes for the top part, and 1 size for the bottom part. I was really excited about this because it was going to be different than what everyone else had, and the yarn is a dream to work with. Here are the problems:

This is the back view. So far so good. However, the sleeves are too long. As a whole, the top part is still too big.

This is the front view. I know it looks like it has boobs but if you look at the link above, you’ll see that those are at the armpit, not the boobage area. To seam the bottom to the top, you’re supposed to stretch the bottom’s edge to 3 inches past the top’s edge. Mine isn’t going to make it. I’d say my error was checking stitches per inch for the bottom instead of rows per inch, since the rows are what lines up to the top. I think the bottom is the right size so if I want to fix this, I’ll need to reknit the whole top part. I haven’t decided yet if I will. (It looks kind of ugly in the pictures, but in person it’s much prettier.)

It’s been getting a little chilly during the dog’s evening walk so I whipped up an earwarmer/headband.

Thank you to the lovely dvd case for modeling it for me since I can’t. I decided to get a perm in my hair and it did NOT turn out well. I’m embarrassed to go out in public. Hell, I’m afraid if I step out of the house birds will think there’s a new nest to take over. Seriously people, I know we all have bad hair days but this is really bad. I’m doing a lot of deep conditioning to try to repair it and make it stop frizzing all over the damn place. Back to the headband, I used the band pattern for Coronet with a small change or two. I added 4 stitches, making it a k3 p3 on each side of the cable. I also slipped the edge stitch to give it a neater edge.

I made the daughter 3 scarves, one of which didn’t make it here. It was made from el cheapo yarn from Michaels. Daughter tells me it’s her favorite so wears it the most, and people have stopped her to tell her how pretty it is. Go figure.

Hope you all have a wonderful New Years! I know several of us have had a pretty crappy 2007 and are looking forward to 2008. May it be better for all of us.

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