So yesterday I mentioned that I was
giving up on the baby sweaters—I pulled them off the needles, and
started some new sweaters—but I haven't frogged the work yet.
Here is a nice image of one of the
sweaters.. Pretty, but way to small for 11 week old girls. I want
them to have some use of them so sweater for them need to be a bit
big right now—so they will still fit in another month (or 2 or 3!) This sweater is pretty--but newborn size--Take 2 will be six to nine month size.
Here is the new beginning... and what a
nice beginning it is. The same cast on –I like this cast on.. not
quite a picot edge, and up close it looks almost like a tubular cast
on—It's the Chinese version of long tail. This cast on alternates
standard long tail stitches with one more like the I
Italian cast on—not to hard to do or
learn, and a nice edge results.
More stitches this time—just a half
dozen, to start, and a few more in the row of purls just below the ribbing, but the result is a totally new stitch count. While I could
have worked out the details and count for the zigzag petal pattern
detailing.. I passed. This time, just simple columns of lace,
radiating out from the neck edge. (Of course I had to work out the placement of the columns--but...)
Already in these first few inches, I am
very happy with the results. The different stitch count has changed
the way the yarn pools —I like the tweedy result much better than the
pools of blue and pink.
I started with 10 ball of this yarn,
and worked the yoke(s) in a single ball, and then had started using
two balls (to minimize—or so I thought) the pooling of colors... I
still had 4 balls of yarn remaining. I am using 2 these right now,
and will have another 2 to continue. I'll unravel the work of the
first attempt sweaters tonight or tomorrow, and wind the yarn onto skeins on my
niddy-noddy, and then let them relax a while before making them back
up into balls (or cakes, if you prefer).
I haven't decides if I am going to
continue the lace columns past the yoke...but I have some time to
think about what I am going to do. And to think about what sort of
hats I will make to match the sweaters.
