The piece I never posted about
You'll probably all think I'm weird, but there was a piece I knit in December of 2005, that I never posted about.
I guess that while I was happy with the concept, and reasonably pleased with the end result, I wasn't 100% content with the final product. On some level, I really wanted to reknit it and get it right, but it's hard to find the time to redo a piece when I have a backlog of new ideas in my head.
Anyway, I present to you, Juliette.
Pattern: My own
Yarn: Cascade 220 in a pretty heathered green color
The piece, like Deciduous, has no body shaping, it all happens by way of ribbing. The sleeves, however, do have shaping. Instead of doing the shaping at the seam, like most sleeves, the shaping is done in the center textured panel. I used kfb or knit and purl in the same stitch, in a manner that would maintain the k/p pattern.
The neckline was just finished with a little bit of single crochet. The cables are from one of the Barbara Walker books
I think, conceptually, it's successful, but I find Cascade 220, just a touch too prickly to wear against the skin. I also wish I hadn't made it with so much ease. It's looser than I normally like.
As a first aran-like design, I don't think it's too bad, but I'm a bit tepid about it overall.
So why the heck am I posting it now? I guess with Ravelry and the Create Along, I'm doing a lot of exploring of the work I've done over the past couple of years. When I saw this in my catalog of photographs, it just seemed right to post about it.