I started this sweater in the fall of 2012. I’m sure some of you have projects like this. Not disliked enough to frog, but can’t get going enough to finish them.
I got this sweater out repeatedly and counted and looked and deduced where I was in the pattern & usually knit another inch or so and then it went back to sleep in my bag.
I finally decided to finish it or frog it. I gave myself permission to finish it and it was ok if it wasn’t perfect or even fit me. Sometimes I just need to jump in and create, I tend to be a perfectionist and that can leave me to think way too much and stop the creative process.
This is a top down knitted sweater, I love knitting in one piece in the round, this is only the 2nd sweater I’ve knitted from the top down. I’ve done numerous bottom up in the round sweaters and didn’t think I would like top down. Well I love it. It is so easy to try on as you go and keep an eye on the fit.
I modified this pattern quite a bit in the years. There is some waist shaping, short rows at the back of the neck. I also made the sleeves fairly straight with a slight roll hem. The biggest change was the collar. The original pattern didn’t have one & the v neck was huge on me. So decided I would fill it in by picking up stitches all along the neck line, starting at the middle front, and working back and forth (so the middle front would overlap).I incorporated short rows from the collar bone area until I was happy with the width of the collar around the neck area.
Jodi approved
The original pattern was the Zuma Tunic by Wendy Bernard. I would like to make it again, but out of cotton to use as a bathing suit/beach cover up. I like her books as she give so many options for her patterns, tweaks for the neck/hood etc.…
May you knitting needles fly as fast as dragonflies…..
I got this sweater out repeatedly and counted and looked and deduced where I was in the pattern & usually knit another inch or so and then it went back to sleep in my bag.
I finally decided to finish it or frog it. I gave myself permission to finish it and it was ok if it wasn’t perfect or even fit me. Sometimes I just need to jump in and create, I tend to be a perfectionist and that can leave me to think way too much and stop the creative process.
This is a top down knitted sweater, I love knitting in one piece in the round, this is only the 2nd sweater I’ve knitted from the top down. I’ve done numerous bottom up in the round sweaters and didn’t think I would like top down. Well I love it. It is so easy to try on as you go and keep an eye on the fit.
I modified this pattern quite a bit in the years. There is some waist shaping, short rows at the back of the neck. I also made the sleeves fairly straight with a slight roll hem. The biggest change was the collar. The original pattern didn’t have one & the v neck was huge on me. So decided I would fill it in by picking up stitches all along the neck line, starting at the middle front, and working back and forth (so the middle front would overlap).I incorporated short rows from the collar bone area until I was happy with the width of the collar around the neck area.
Jodi approvedThe original pattern was the Zuma Tunic by Wendy Bernard. I would like to make it again, but out of cotton to use as a bathing suit/beach cover up. I like her books as she give so many options for her patterns, tweaks for the neck/hood etc.…
May you knitting needles fly as fast as dragonflies…..
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