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Certainly, I like it more than this one.
But it is not the best sweater I've ever made and sizing is a bit off. (Could it be that I've grown yet again? How many times do we do that in a lifetime?) I've blocked the #$%@ out of Teach and still the armholes bind.And I should have remembered - having several years ago made a never-worn sweater with mid-body ribbing - that mid-body on most is not mid-body on me. Even with severe blocking, this ribbing wants to ride up to sit atop the nipples.
My first hint that it might not be the design for me was from Marie at selandpoivre. She commented that she wouldn't make Hey Teach! because she doesn't look good in baby doll designs. Baby Doll? I hadn't seen Hey Teach! as baby doll. But in fact it is. And I now know, like Marie, baby doll doesn't look good on me.
On the positive side, the yarn is wonderful. Eco Cloud Cotton from Peru by Kertzer.
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Hmmm, I had planned on making Hey Teach, but you and Marie may have pushed me in another direction.
I'm a huge fan o fthe top dpwn sweater - I make them often, using my own make it up as you go along patterns. I find the fit to be better on them. So I have put Hey Teach on the back burner for a while.
Yep, it's a baby doll. But, really, from here they don't look so bad. At least you finished them, that's way better than I can manage!
If your Hey, Teach had been made of wool, would it have tolerated being blocked more severely and behaved better afterward? I don't have a lot of experience with blocking cottons. None, actually.
Yours looks pretty darn good to me, but if it binds, that stinks. And I know how it goes when a project is not quite right: "We have the technology! We can rebuild [it]!" :)
Liz
Oh my goodness I'm just getting caught up on all the posts I've missed over the summer - you've knit and ripped two and a third sweaters from the same yarn in the time its taken me to accomplish a bunch of swatching!
You are a noble knitter, true to your standards through and through!
As for Baby Dolls - there is so much written about bust size as it relates to ease, but bust location relative to pattern and fit is even harder to deal with isn't it?
Oh my goodness I'm just getting caught up on all the posts I've missed over the summer - you've knit and ripped two and a third sweaters from the same yarn in the time its taken me to accomplish a bunch of swatching!
You are a noble knitter, true to your standards through and through!
As for Baby Dolls - there is so much written about bust size as it relates to ease, but bust location relative to pattern and fit is even harder to deal with isn't it?
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