Audrey A-Long

Finished!

Some thoughts on Audrey:

The Calmer was a DREAM to work with. I've only been knitting about a year, so I'm still learning that there are yarns that are not so fun to work with. Calmer was really easy on the hands and on the eyes, with its soft hand and good stitch definition. It did get a little splitty on the seaming up, but that was pretty easy to avoid. I only found 2 knots in the 7 balls I used, which is more than acceptable to me. My Audrey is in the color Peacock. I made the size S and I used Denise US8 and US9 needles.

The pattern was pretty easy too. I ended up going with Tiffany's modified decreases because I had an easier time visualizing what they would look like -- I had a hard time envisioning what the pattern's ones would hang on the body (chalk it up to the newbie knitter again). I raised the increases and decreases a little less than an inch because I'm high-waisted. I think that was a mistake, as it doesn't hang as well as I would like. But I do like the way that it seems to accentuate the curves. I also shortened the sleeves to make them three-quarter length.

I really like this style and the way it has a nicely curved boatneck. I did 19 repeats on the neckline. It probably would have been fine with 18 too, but I wanted to make sure that it was shoulder-hugging. Over the weekend, I realized that I actually own three other sweaters that are similarly styled with no top shoulder seams, only side seams. I guess that's why I was drawn to Audrey!

The lace edging was tricky for me. I'm still not sure I know the difference between a YFRN and a YRN FWD, but it looks okay to me, so there ya go. Twice I got off by a row so that my zig-zags started appearing along the straight edge... rrrriiiip. Once I started using lifelines, my frustration went down exponentially.

I also realized through this that the knit-blogging community is so helpful and informative -- not to mention NICE -- that I really should come out of lurkdom. So, I set up a virtual home at fidget.prettyposies.com. Y'all come!

Posted by AnnM at September 16, 2004 07:07 AM