Phew.
The purple-bobbin-madness (a.k.a “Insanity”) is finally finished. Okay…I say “finally” as if it’s been going on forever, it hasn’t. It just took me a lot longer than I expected.
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And it’s a baby sweater!
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Can you see now why I kept it a secret? To show this knitting in-progress would have made the final product pretty boring. |
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And, the inside. (For all of you non-knitters – this side is fairly important to us.)
Not my best finishing work, but damn…I had a lot of ends to weave in. |
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I had this many ends to weave in.
Dirty little secret #1: |
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Dirty little secret #2: See the white, outlined diamonds? This is how they look now that I’m finished… |
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…But this is how they looked before I duplicate stitched (embroidered) over the existing stitches. I suppose it was the weight of the bobbins that made these stitches almost disappear.
Next time I do argyle, I’ll probably just duplicate stitch the outline stitches, and save myself the trouble of four more bobbins hanging from the work. |
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I’ve been wanting to do something with the Arrrglye motif for a while now, and it was the reason I designed this sweater.
The sweater has lots of tiny stitches to clearly show a detailed color pattern, and simple dropped shoulders to keep there from being much shaping. Tiny stitches + dropped shoulders = plenty of room for a big motif. I’ll be looking for other cool intarsia designs to use on this simple sweater pattern. |
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Just so you know that there were no shenanigans…Lou supervised the photo shoot. |
