The Fate of Kitty Pi.
Viva has decided that instead of sleeping in it, that she would bunch it up and lay on top of it. It needs another solid run through the wash, but at this point, who am I to stop the fun. She brought it into her favorite toy rotation (along with the cat nip toy and the bouncy-thing from SP7 Sarah, so maybe it will just be a giant blob.
Karabella Cardi
 | I sewed up the back, left front, and one sleeve of the Karabella Cardi last night and I think it is going to work. I started the 2nd sleeve and hope to have the whole body sewn up by Sunday. I have decided I will definitely be picking in the stitches around the neck and knitting the yoke that way, as opposed to the directions which instruct a top-down method to be "sewn on" at the end. Yeah, I don't think so! |
Tunes!
Seen at Lollygirl and a few other places, and I thought it was pretty cool. What you'll find in my music collection:
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2 comments:
No kidding - why would anyone sew the dang yoke on?!
I like the "most creative use of a kitty pi" attitude. :)
Very classic music there!
Okay, I'll just add one comment to think about. I made that sweater in January (and absolutely love it). The yoke is actually a great deal longer than the top of the sewn-together sweater. I don't remember what the ratio was, but somewhere between 2:1 and 3:2. It took some finagling to get everything to work out evenly when I pinned it to the top. But I think you need that extra "ease" to the yoke to help hold the top of the sweater on when you're wearing it. And, the needle size of the yoke varies to make it a tighter rib . . .
I'm not saying DON'T try picking up the yoke stitches. But there were things in the shaping of the yoke itself I wasn't expecting until I knitted it. And I certainly wasn't expecting it to be so much longer than the body of the sweater! I just don't want you to have any unpleasant surprises (grin).
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