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OK, I admit it’s been a couple of weeks, and I still have not fixed the collar on my top-down V-neck raglan from the Friday group class knit-along.  Part of that is due to a whole lot of teaching going on, and part of that is due to another sock pattern I am designing for my friend Deb of Fearless Fibers…  you’ll hear more about that later.

But even if I haven’t been working on my sweater, there are other knitters who are working on theirs!  Check them out!

First we have Mary, who bravely put some cables on the front and sleeves of hers — sorry though, somehow I managed not to take a picture of the front or the sleeves.  But there’s the back, with a nice little cable detail she placed back there as well  — notice how the cable detail pulls the fabric in a bit and helps to provide some waist shaping, too.  Clever!

Leslie is not knitting her "cruelty-free" sweater for herself, so she declined to model it… however, we’ve seen pictures of it on the recipient and I guarantee you it fits her.

Linda’s sweater was last seen partially completed a couple of weeks ago, and here it is fully completed! –  except for the neckline trim, which is not her fault, as we haven’t gotten around to that part in class yet.

Below is a shot of the front of Linda’s sweater, as well as Sandy’s.

Poor Sandy got laughed at a little bit last week, when she turned to me and asked, "How long should I make it?"

Anyone who’s been knitting with me for about five minutes knows that my answer to that is, "How long do you want it?"

(And maybe, "How much yarn ya got left?")

But after we all had a chuckle about it, we concurred as a group that the "top of the pocket" is usually a good length for a "high hip" type of sweater.

I think it’s OK to take a little bit of liberty in teasing Sandy here, because I think hers is also the best-fitting sweater of the bunch so far.  Not that anyone else’s doesn’t fit — but Sandy has a generous bust, and so has some fitting issues that I, sadly, have personally never dealt with.

And not only did she bravely forge ahead with what I can only call a "guesstimate" for her short-row bust darts — I also think it was a pretty good guesstimate, and it came out rather nicely fitting.  Perhaps, if one were going to be extremely picky,  we could have done a couple more short rows, as evidenced by the very, very slight gathering of the fabric under the arm — but all-in-all, I think it came out absolutely great.  (It’s certainly a vast improvement over what we’d have under that arm if we hadn’t done short rows, I guarantee it.)

Plus, she also cleverly made the knitting do some of the work:  she made the bottom of her sweater out of wide ribbing, so she didn’t have to muck about with calculating any waist shaping.  Nice fit for little effort gets extra points in my book!

And of course, major bonus points for the fact that it’s green!  It’s not MOHAIR, though, so I guess I’ll let her keep it for herself…

Remember, there are three more guinea pigs working diligently on their sweaters, so I better hope to have more pictures to share in the coming weeks!