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august 1, 2003

yellow and blue make sleeves

Two sleeves for the little star sweater. Had to knit these together right away as I am apparently too lazy to write down any of my pattern changes. In addition to changing the size I'm also changing the cast off, but I still can't be bothered to write it down. I changed the cast off because I've sort of declared an unofficial summer vacation from picking up stitches to do neckbands and such. Since these raglan sweaters have such straight edges, I thought I could simply make the cast off rows nice enough to use as the neck. I liked the cast off edging that the Pagan tank used (pick up stitches on right side, cast off on wrong side) and so am using that same idea here. But instead of picking up later, I'm just casting off on the wrong side whenever it says to cast off. Because the sleeves are striped raglan sleeves, I'm getting this cool striped cast off edge. I did the same thing on the baby version of the sweet heart sweater and was pleased with the result.

Don't be surprised to see the sweet heart sleeves soon. It's either do them right away or write the numbers down somewhere. Just another way to motivate myself to do something, I guess!

posted by alison at 7:50 am | in pipsqueaks
Comments

I am mysteriously drawn to the yellow and baby blue stripes, and thinking I might have to rip them off to make something for myself one of these days ;)

Posted by: kim at August 1, 2003 10:36 AM

Awesome! I love your method on the sleeves. Now if I could actually understand what you did I would be ahead of the game!

Posted by: Chris at August 1, 2003 11:44 AM

*Power* to experience :¬) What fun to fiddle around with patterns and have them come out looking good! The yellow and blue looks so "sea-side" nice choice.

Posted by: Lydia at August 2, 2003 7:55 AM




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