March 15, 2005
Jump into a sweater
Ugly animals, ugly bag, cute bag hmmmm...what next? oh yeah, A friggin sweater! I stood undaunted, even more so since it was for a three year old. My LYS recommended some wool, the same that I made the bag from actually. Dark and light gray, natural, from a small humane farm in WI. I bought 750 yrds for $18 and after reading a few patterns for inspiration, not swatching or checking guage, I pulled out a set of bamboo 9s and began a sweater that, for all I knew, coulda' fit Little Bit, me, or my step father.
I plodded through a whole front of stockinet stitch, then a back, then finally 2 arms. The only thing new was the arm shaping, which included a few m1 increases. The neck was easy, no shaping, just slash-y.
I blocked with some antique hat pins on the floor of my mom's living room.
Then came time to stitch up. huh? First the side of the body, the arm number one, by arm number 2 I had the hang of mattress stitch and then it was over.
Viola, sweater!
