Nurrr

[supernovajane]

Feeling sick today I decided to try to finish my little crop toppped sweater with the puffy sleeves.  The thing is a disaster.  Well Ok, it could be worse but one sleeve is puffier than the other (PAY ATTENTION BETH!) and the body is both too wide and too short.  I thought I measured it out all ok but it was all for naught.  I may spend the rest of tonight unraveling it.  Which sucks bc its a lace weight mohair silk blend and every time I undo it the poor yarn just looks sadder.  It was $$ too.  I should learn to be nicer to very nice yarn.  I may go ahead and make some gauntlets out of the yarn instead.  They would look massively cute I think and I could do a nice lace panel down the top of the arm.  MMM lace.  I am obsessed with lace weight mohair.  The last 2 things I knitted for myself have been made out of this stuff.  (the first one was a nylon mohair blend.) I am definately much more impressed with the quality and handling of the silk blend and the subtle sheen it gives the finished piece.  I should have planned the shirt better, I think they way I did it was too structured for the yarn, and I made the sleeves a smaller gauge which made them too heavy for the rest of the garment.  I also wanted it to billowy-er and I was much too misshaped to fulfill that.  I will probably try to make a shirt like that again (with some virgin yarn I think) More closely resembling the shape I had in mind, But I'll have to do some actual planning (oh noes!)   Maybe with a collar... (ooh I love the peter-pan kind) Fuzzy yarn dreams all!

P.S.  Maybe on the gauntlets I could do some bead knitting.... virgin territory I've been wanting to explore for a while.  I don't know how this yarn will like beads though.. it is quite fuzzy.

~Beth