the blue blog archives: bread body

Aren't those stripes great! I totally adore them. The colors are so cool together. And to think that this was hand-me-down yarn from Amber's hubby's grandmother! Amber says that between bags of old Phildar yarn, a half-finished angora/alpaca sweater and lots of quality acrylic yarns, there was just this bread bag with totally retro colored mystery yarn. She brought it to the swap and it's like it's finally found what it was meant to be. I'm so keeping the bag, don't you know!

Anyhoo, back to the knitting. The body came out a little larger than I had anticipated. It's not too big, but after doing a lot of adjusting for my larger gauge, it seemed like it was coming out a little snug. Ends up that it will have the same sort of fit as the pattern in the Vintage Knits book. But it is most definitely longer. No crop tops for me, thank you very much. Instead of just doing more stripes to lengthen the piece - I was worried about messing up the sequence at the very top where the neck edge color needs to contrast with the colors on the shoulder - I made each stripe a few rows longer. This added a good two inches to the whole piece. It's gonna make reworking the sleeves a be-atch, though, since I need to keep the same overall shape while adjusting for my larger gauge and now longer armholes. The good news is that I think I have enough of the mystery yarn left over to do stripes on the sleeves as well.

posted by alison at 9:12 am | in giant white bread

Comments

how cute!

Posted by: cara at April 27, 2005 9:29 AM

Alison

Now I know what the white bread reference is! It takes me awhile you know!

Would like to help out with sockapalooza knitters who got shortchanged. Dont want to write my ideas here incase, they read them.

Will email you......

kathy b.

Posted by: kathy b. at April 27, 2005 9:31 AM

Love the sequence of colors!

Posted by: leslie at April 27, 2005 9:35 AM

That is going to be so cute on you! :)

Posted by: Jessica at April 27, 2005 9:43 AM

That sweater looks so great! I'm so glad that yarn got a great home, and gets to be in a great project!!

Grandma isn't doing so good right now, so I might have to print out a few pictures to bring down there next time I go, or mail! She's back into physical rehab at the moment, and something like this will totally make her day :)

Yay!

Posted by: Amber at April 27, 2005 9:46 AM

Wow! THose colors are amazing! Love the stripes!

Posted by: Dani at April 27, 2005 10:30 AM

i just love those colours you have together, and i'm going through a major stripes kick at the moment so this one is pressing all the right buttons.

Posted by: anna at April 27, 2005 10:47 AM

I made the vintage knits pattern you showed here in blues and greens and I love the fit. I also made mine longer. You'll love it!

Posted by: LeAnne at April 27, 2005 12:45 PM

That's one of the reasons I love knitting so much - sizing garments to our own preferences. No crop tops for me, either! It's looking great!

Posted by: Madalyn at April 27, 2005 1:17 PM

Great Great colours! Can't wait to see it done. I am with you on the no crop tops for me gig too. Yuck!

Posted by: marti at April 27, 2005 2:56 PM

Great stripes! I must try to get round to stripey knitting one of these days.

Posted by: emy at April 27, 2005 3:22 PM

I love that the back is one solid color. This is on my list of must-knits from Vintage Knits. Can't wait to see the FO!

Posted by: MJ at April 27, 2005 3:31 PM

It's so cute! I like your color combo even better than theirs, although they are pretty similar. Good luck with those sleeves :)

Posted by: Vicki at April 27, 2005 4:07 PM

You truly have vision! Those colors were so unassuming in the bag; I never would have been able to envision that striped sweater.

Posted by: Dani at April 27, 2005 9:54 PM

Those colours go so well together, I think it's the little green stripe that's doing the magic. By the way, I've finished my fix-it way past Feb. I've converted my yarn from a tank top into a dress bodice for my daughter - I've put up a photo of the dress bodice on my blog. Thanks again for the inspiration to re-do something that didn't work the first time.

Posted by: erin at April 28, 2005 2:28 AM

I love it! I have to admit that when you started this sweater I was thinking "Well, this will be one of the first things she has made that I don't like." But lo and behold, the 'finished' product is great!

Posted by: Wendi at April 28, 2005 8:30 AM

That looks fantastic! I love your eye for color. The stripes are perfectly retro.

Posted by: Illanna at April 28, 2005 11:40 PM

i really like this one! can't wait to see it done!... hmmm, i'm craving peanut butter and jelly he he heee

Posted by: rebecca at April 29, 2005 2:58 PM