Started with a double stranded bottom on dpns and then increased out gradually. Using a mesh stitch for the body of the bag. On the top decreases.
4/1: Finished handles, just need to weave in ends and take pictures.
| Began | March 21, 2009 |
| Finished | March 31, 2009 |
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| Edited | May 26, 2009 |
| Made for | me |
Knit with handspun Sun Valley and their DK base to go with. Planned to continue handspun as far as needed instead of just in the yoke. Did not decrease in the underbust, but added more increases. Underarm patterning section is continued all the way down through handspun. I loved spinning this fiber and I loved…
used this pattern (Virgil version) as a canvas for my own striping pattern, which doesn’t go all the way down the sweater to use more of the planetarium colorway. Also made long sleeves instead of the shorter ones. my gauge was a little small, so I made the 12-18 size and think it will fit…
After a swatch went a totally different way that I expected, I used it as a guide for this pattern. Initially swatched with Dream in Color classy from AmyToadyJoe. Then tried Cat’s Eye previously ripped out from some socks. Now SweetGeorgia… much better. Charted as I went, but tweaked heavily as i made it through…
holding two deep stash yarns together – brown sheep wildfoote and then either Knit Picks Shine Sport in Fuschia or Silver for some really basic stripes and and all over “sprinkle” design!
for SZ: add stranded piece to top? for whatcha swatchin: oldest sweater quantity (sept 2008, I think), oldest buttons from BI. Added fair isle hearts to the top edge, and a single row of dots above the ribbing on the sleeves and bottom edge. the accent color was also used to attach the fringe edges…
