FO #6: Chinese lace pullover
Aug. 25th, 2008 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI have show-and-tell today: I finished knitting another sweater. This one took only half the time my last one took, going from yarn to done in a speedy 3.5 months. :) It's made of 100% bamboo, which is heavy, shiny and drapey... I love how it feels when it's on.
All pictures of the project
Detailed FO post in my knitting blog
I like my general policy of only posting finished objects to LJ, but, obviously, sweaters do not just spring full-formed from my forehead every few months. I spend a fair bit of time on this, not just knitting but also reading stitch dictionaries, design books, Ravelry, and, lately, a lot of graph paper.
My next project is special, a self-designed Aran sweater... which, not incidentally, is what I started knitting for. I just didn't know when I started that it would take me a year and a half to work up to making such a thing, much less that tons of people knit for many years without ever feeling up for it.
Fools and engineers rush in where angels fear to tread, right? Swatching has begun. FO post in, oh, probably a year.
All pictures of the project
Detailed FO post in my knitting blog
I like my general policy of only posting finished objects to LJ, but, obviously, sweaters do not just spring full-formed from my forehead every few months. I spend a fair bit of time on this, not just knitting but also reading stitch dictionaries, design books, Ravelry, and, lately, a lot of graph paper.
My next project is special, a self-designed Aran sweater... which, not incidentally, is what I started knitting for. I just didn't know when I started that it would take me a year and a half to work up to making such a thing, much less that tons of people knit for many years without ever feeling up for it.
Fools and engineers rush in where angels fear to tread, right? Swatching has begun. FO post in, oh, probably a year.
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Date: 2008-08-26 06:58 pm (UTC)I had a few reasons. First, this is a 3/4 sleeve light sweater not really meant for winter (the design specifies cotton). I have a bamboo t-shirt that I really like. And lastly, originally I was doing this as a knitalong (same pattern, same yarn) with my friend Chia, who used this yarn for a different sweater and loved it.
Lastly, bamboo feels really nice and cool in the hands and on the lap, for summer knitting. I must say, I got used to the smoothness -- I'm back to wool now, and some of the coarser stuff feels like knitting Velcro. :)