9.24.10

The purple monster is finished. The shoulders hang wa-a-a-a-a-ay down and the whole thing has a sort of sweat-shirty look. I switched to Cascade 220 for the ribbing and I am glad I did that. The last two rows of the neck ribbing I switched to a needle a size even smaller than the rest of the ribbing and bound off tightly so the neckline wouldn't flop. Not bad for a first sweater. I think it is even wearable if temperatures ever leave the 80s (27+ in Celsius) and we get some REAL fall weather...

More From What I Meant to Post in January

Here is a dachshund sweater I knit last week. Lily really needed it a couple of days. I had it all bound off two times before I was satisfied with the fit. It has a unique dart system under her chest and a V-shaped gusset of ribbing that narrows and continues around the edge. When it gets to the saddle shape over the rear, I had to make stitches for the ribbing to lie flat. Although I would have liked to have had it go longer, I really wanted her to wear it at least once while we were InTheMountains and I had already ripped it back twice. She seemed to enjoy it. I used Lamb’s Pride with a strand of some kind of Jojoland long repeat. It photographs much bluer than it its. It is really a grapey purple. It has a fairly stiff hand because I thought if the stitches were closer together, it might not felt as easily.