june.

twiggy sweater dress.

pattern: twiggy tunic, from twinkle's big city knits.

yarn: 3 skeins of lion brand wool ease thick and quick, in fig.

needles: US 15

dates: cast on 9 june 2008, cast off 1o june 2008

modifications:

three increases in sleeves, instead of five
made sleeves twenty inches long
made body around 24 inches long

notes:

i almost don't want to count this one as part of my challenge. the whole thing took me only about six hours total to knit. i made the wintery version with bulkier yarn than called for. i didn't mean to make it off the shoulder, it just came out too big. i'm rather happy with the results. this was my practice sweater. i used it to practice cabling without a cable needle for my soon-to-be demi pullover. i also used it to figure out how to join the sleeves and the body at the armhole, and knit the yoke together, which is what i want to do for the darcy cardigan.

i can't believe i ever cabled with a cable needle.

on a side note: the finger on my left hand, the one i use to push the needle down to remove a stitch, has now become a causality in my knitting challenge. what do i mean, you ask? i mean it is bleeding. now normal people, when they develop a knitting wound, would stop knitting. but not me. i, with my addictive personality who does everything to excess (exactly why i'm straight edge), ran out and bought myself a dozen of these:

yep, i bought finger protectors. and the whole bleeding index finger thing is now merely a bump on the road to darcy progress.



i think i need to take a knitting hiatus.



oh, one other thing: i swear i have a life. i have just mastered the art of living while knitting.