Posts Tagged raglan

Short-Row Bust Darts

For about half of the “Magnificent 7 Guinea Pigs” group, one of the big fit issues was how to fit a sweater for a generous bust without it becoming a gunny sack.

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More Great Guinea Pigs

Table of contents for Friday Guinea Pigs: TDVNR Knitalong

  1. I Love My Job!
  2. The Friday Guinea Pigs!
  3. This Is Why It’s Gonna Snow in Portland
  4. One TWO Successful Guinea Pigs!
  5. More Great Guinea Pigs
  6. Short-Row Bust Darts

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.

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One TWO Successful Guinea Pigs!

Table of contents for Friday Guinea Pigs: TDVNR Knitalong

  1. I Love My Job!
  2. The Friday Guinea Pigs!
  3. This Is Why It’s Gonna Snow in Portland
  4. One TWO Successful Guinea Pigs!
  5. More Great Guinea Pigs
  6. Short-Row Bust Darts

The top-down rust raglan that I knit for the Friday Group Class knit-along was finished last Friday (or so I thought).rust raglan

I picked up around the neckline and knit simple K2, P2 for a polo style collar.  (Turns out that isn’t going to work so well — but more about that in a minute.)

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Let It Snow

Here is what it looks like from my office window and my backyard these days:

 

red tree in snowyard in snow

feet in snow

And here is the yoke to my top-down raglan sweater so far.

sweater yoke so far

With all this snow, and everything being cancelled, you might think I’d have gotten a bit more knitting done, wouldn’t you?

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This Is Why It’s Gonna Snow in Portland

Table of contents for Friday Guinea Pigs: TDVNR Knitalong

  1. I Love My Job!
  2. The Friday Guinea Pigs!
  3. This Is Why It’s Gonna Snow in Portland
  4. One TWO Successful Guinea Pigs!
  5. More Great Guinea Pigs
  6. Short-Row Bust Darts

It fits!

yoke of TDVNR 2008

Wow, does it fit!

These may be the very least baggy armholes I have ever knit for myself.

 And — lest you think this is some kind of freak accident that was bound to happen someday if I just kept knitting long enough — looky, it pretty much matches the sweater I was trying to copy.

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The Friday Guinea Pigs!

Table of contents for Friday Guinea Pigs: TDVNR Knitalong

  1. I Love My Job!
  2. The Friday Guinea Pigs!
  3. This Is Why It’s Gonna Snow in Portland
  4. One TWO Successful Guinea Pigs!
  5. More Great Guinea Pigs
  6. Short-Row Bust Darts

As anyone who has been reading lately knows, the Friday Group class regulars decided that they wanted to do a top-down raglan sweater, knit-along style.

Only thing is, they are all different shapes and sizes — being that they are human beings and all.

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UFOlympics: the eighth and ninth events

Yes, you may well have been questioning why there is a total of 12 UFO's on my UFOlympic "decathlon" list.  (Actually, there are 13, because I had to add one UFO #0 that I forgot about when making the original list.)  But it's a good thing.

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