ooooh, Alison, it came out looking amazing! The sizing looks perfect and it does indeed look pretty on you - great job!

Nice work! I'm going to call you Tank Girl with Flying Fingers.

It's really something when you can tailor your knits to fit you perfectly. Great job! (and I'm loving the cap sleeves with the design)

I can't believe how quickly you finished that! It looks great. Nice fit too. Funny how "mistakes" can so often make something even better than we'd originally intended.

alison, that looks fabulous on you! great colors!

It looks great on you.Form fitting really suits you !Don't the colours look good together ? Clever Alison... quite put me to shame ;-]

It fits perfectly and the sleeves are great. I am impressed that you thought of putting these yarns together and that it worked so well.

wow -- it looks even prettier on than when it was being knit up!! gorgeous. great job. how creative you have been despite your many torments lately! you go girl!!!!

That looks gorgeous Alison, I love the way it fits you so well. And the colours you chose for the stripes look great as well. Speedy work considering you have moved house as well. Good job!

A first class job and it looks so comfortable. The waist shaping from Bob is very handy - I used it in the stripey tank I made recently and I'll probably be using it again.

Oh la laaaaaa! I'm very impressed with your work, as always. That waist shaping fits you so well. You go! (And I'm so happy you liked the turquoise...you put it to such creative use. I knew you would. You rock!!)

The top looks great. The shaping came out perfectly. It fits you really well. I too like how the arms turned out. Great 'redesign' of the original!

Gorgeous! That's all that needs to be said.

WOW! You go Alison!!! The colors are beautiful together and it sure looks like it fits perfectly. :)

How is Benny's arm?

Tank girl rules! (I am sick with envy; I love your Sweetness tank. So sexy!)

Wow, that is sweet! :) Great tank... and the waist shaping looks great!

Quick question. What pattern book/line is the picture you have a the off the shoulder tank that says "smooch all seasons cotton"? Is that a Rowan pattern from the #27 book? Love it - just hoping to find out where it came from.

Thanks!

Wow, that is so sweet--umm, regardless of the name--and the fit is great.

I know this isn't the place to say this, but I'd like to sign up for the Phildar late-summer knitalong, and I don't know where else to put it--sorry.

So cute! You are breaking my heart with all the cute summer sweaters.

List of things to do:
1. get waist
2. knit sweaters with waist shaping

Did you follow the pattern and just make the sleeves very short or did you have to make a modification?

Alison, that's one beautiful sweater!! I love the colors! I am amazed at how fast it all went together.

Thanks everyone! I can't wait to wear the thing. Unfortunately the weather's turned rather chilly here in Boston and all I can think about is long sleeved sweaters that I wish I'd made. :)

Jo, it's nice of you to ask about Benny. He's doing quite well. He's getting used to the cast and is starting to use that arm again. His visit to the orthopedist went well and word is that in three weeks he should be able to get a shorter cast, which would free his elbow, or might be healed enough to not need one at all anymore.

wow, it really is marvelous. makes me want one too!

that's fabulous!!

I love your take on Sweetness. I can't quite tell from the photo, but can you tell me how you did the sleeves? I love short cap-like sleeves, and this looks like it's just the thing that I'm looking for.

Hello Ann,

I just adapted the sleeves from the original sweetness pattern. Have you seen the original pattern? Check it out at knitty.com.

For the cap sleeves, I measured my upper arm and multiplied the measurement by my gauge, so I knew how many stitches to cast on. I cast on, knit (I did a few stripes) for a couple of centimeters (about an inch maybe) and then followed the directions for joining to the body and knitting the yoke all in one piece with raglan decreases. The raglan pulls the sleeves even further up your arm, so the sleeves end up real short and fun.

If you're making regular set-in sleeves separately from the body, I'd do the same thing, just be sure not to knit any more than an inch and then whatever your pattern says to do for the sleeve cap. If you want to make set in sleeves be really short like the ones I did here, just do one row and then the sleeve cap. Or start knitting the sleeve from the pattern, but after the first set of bound off stitches from the sleeve cap - cast on that many fewer stitches, knit the rest of the sleeve cap and then remember when you sew it on that the armhole doesn't close completely. A few stitches from the body at the armpit form part of the armhole.

Good luck!