Kingscot Finis

How about these buttons? I've been waiting to use them on something. Navy blue, with an etched edge and little engraved and painted flowers on the centers.

This really has been one of my favorite knits ever. I don't know if it was the yarn (DB Cashmerino DK - so so so soft) or the pattern (Norah G., what could be bad?) or the fact that I wasn't making it up as I went along that did it. Either way, I completely enjoyed knitting this sweater, from beginning to end. Even when I realized that I was done seaming and had made a ridiculous mistake along the button band - look - I decreased at the first hole and and then increased back again at the second! ugh. What was I doing???



Instead of frogging the SEAMED sweater and reknitting, I centered the buttons to cover the blip. (After I took the photo) It worked out pretty well - a knitter will know, but no one else will notice. I wasn't planning to wear this buttoned anyways, so it's not a big deal that they cover the holes and are for show only. However, I do have to find a third -- I think there needs to be a little balance below the boob line here.

Another bad pic. Sorry. That thing over my crotch is not a feather I'm wearing in my zipper or - as has been pointed out to me by my a very polite and considerate friend, my dick. I don't have one. The mirror is engraved. And I'm poorly situated.

You can see I did change the fit of the sweater a little. After trying it on at Yarns in the Farms' Twist Trunk Show, I realized (was told in no uncertain terms) it was way baggier than would look good on me, and too long. My version is a little shorter, tighter through the body and has much narrower sleeves. Which works great for me, but made the math a little fun.

Unfortunately it's going to be 80 degrees out today. So, I'll show it to my knitting students this morning and then pack it away until fall. Sigh. (Hey, maybe they'll take a better photo...)

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Before I begin my next design project, here's what's going on the needles now. A few pairs of mitts - on the left are Cafe Au Lait Mitts and on the right, a made up pair with a little lace chevrons around the cuff. In a cream colored Rowan Tweed. I love how the lace looks in the rustic tweed - am feeling like Jared Flood all the sudden.


These are going to be gifts - I think I'll plow through a bunch of single stash-skeins and make a few pairs this week so I have them on hand when needed!

It's a good way to play with lace patterns as I think of what to do on the next project.