Audrey A-Long

Oh mes petites fleurs, quand vous allez au lit quand les sunrises, les possibilités sont sans fin...

I just couldn't go to sleep without leaving you the instructions for the shaping shown yesterday. This being such a HUGE holiday weekend and all, one might find a little time for the magic of the needles between biting the heads off of the finest chocolate bunnies!

Behold the Audrey Dart:

Ingredients:
2 oz Gin
1 1/2 oz Cream
1/2 oz fresh Lemon juice
1/2 oz fresh Lime juice
2 drops Orange-flower water
1 tsp Powdered sugar
1/2 cup cracked Ice
Cold Club soda
Orange slice

Mixing instructions:
Blend all ingredients except soda and orange slice in a blender until smooth. Pour into a chilled glass and garnish with a slice of orange.

OOPS - that's the recipe for a Ramos Fizz - Holly and my favorite morning eye opener!

Well, have one and then try this:

Audrey's Dart

Abbreviations:
K2TOG: knit 2 together
SSK: slip slip knit
pm: place marker
sm: slip marker
M1R: make one leanining right
M1L: make one leaning left

Choose the two knit columns (2 knit stitches) that will form the darts. You wil be making two darts on the front and two darts on the back. Use the pattern numbers to estimate the placement, making sure the two columns are the same distance from the middle of the piece, front or back.

Establishing row (RS): work stitches as they appear (knit the knit stitches, purl the purl stitches) up to the first two knit stitches that form a dart, K1, pm, K1, continue to next column, K1, pm, K1.

(WS) all rows: Work all stitches as they appear.

Decrease Row (RS): work stitches as they appear up to the first two knit stitches that form a dart, K2TOG, slip marker, SSK, continue to next dart, K2TOG, slip marker, SSK, finish row.

Repeat the DEC row every 8th row, 3 more times.

Work even for 9 rows, ending with a WS row.

Increase Row (RS): work stitches as they appear up to the first two knit stitches that form a dart, M1R, K1, sm, K1, M1L, continue to next dart, M1R, K1, sm, K1, M1L, finish row.

Repeat the INC row every 8th row, 3 more times, working the added stitches into the rib pattern.

HINT #1: you can control the shape of your sweater by choosing the number of rows between decreases or increases. More rows, more gradual shaping; less rows, compressed shaping. If you have a longer torso, lengthen your dart, by working more rows between the top set of increases. If you are petite, work less rows between the bottom set of decreases.

HINT #2: if you don't like the look of the centered double decrease dart, work one set of dec/incs on the knit stitch of the column chosen for the dart that faces the side of the sweater and one set of dec/incs on a column right next to the side of the sweater corresponding to the column.

This is: one knit stitch from the Right Dart and one knit stitch on the outside of a Right Side column. Do this on the Left side of the sweater as well.

This makes the double decrease needed with a more sublte look since one decrease is done in a place that falls under the arm.

Why, oh Tiffany, did you not give us the chart like YOU PROMISED? Well, kittens, it would've taken more time explaining the chart then writing the instructions.

And I need my beauty rest - pass me my window shades, darling, the sun is hurting my eyes...

Posted by Tiffany at April 9, 2004 07:50 AM