Gobsmacked and Eponge Back
Can I just say that I am completely floored by all of you? I feel like I've been sent post cards from all over! Gobsmacked doesn't even begin to describe what it felt like reading each one of your comments with your home territories in them. I had no idea there were so many knitting biologists out there, either! I may not always be able to respond to my comments, but I have MT send them to my inbox so I do read every one of them! I'll be working on the maps over the weekend. I can't wait to see what they look like. And if anyone wants to add their location to my my map... just click here. Again, to everyone, thank you so much for waving to me from where-ever you are. Thanks to Christina's comment yesterday, I have this image in my head of all of you on surfboards surfing in, gliding by my beach and waving hello as you cruise through the Internet ocean.
And, for those of you who asked, everything went fine with my server watching, hopefully I won't have to do that again for a while!
What was I working on while I was waiting? My pink and spongy Eponge top! I'm now working on the back and am not quite half-way to the raglan shaping. I think this (with the lovely early morning Chicago sunlight) is the first picture I've posted that captures well both the color and the texture of the piece. It's really all that textured ribbing that makes the project interesting and is making me excited about adding it to my wardrobe. There's no shaping on the back or the front beyond the ribbing, but I think the placement of the K2P2 ribbing will help give it some gentle shaping at the waist and make it feel a little shaped while being worn, withouth being too tightly form fitting.
My only change from the pattern was to add a stockinette selvedge stitch to each end. This stuff is going to be hard enough to seam up with out having to seam purl stitches together, and for my size, there were just purl stitches at the edge to make the pattern work out in a way that looked nice.
The back is a long slog, but I'm beginning to get that excited-must-knit-constantly feeling of having a sweater close to being ready to wear.
Must go knit constantly! Have a great weekend everyone!
Might be just perfect for Maryland!
How did you translate the Phildar patterns? I have about 5 magazines (in Dutch) and no way to translate them.
Gobsmacked...I like it! Esponge looks amazing, so much pink :)