I made these graphics so I can call them up every time I need it, which currently seems to be about three times a year. I’m holding steady at about two projects that need only a weekend of work, a bunch of socks in various states of disarray, and a pile of pretty distracty yarn.
If work is excuse number one, here’s excuse number two: My ol’ Buick-y camera’s memory card reader is working funny for some reason. Onward to the scanner!
This is/is not Lien Ngo’s Pintuck Tee. Obviously I got a little happy on the instructions at some point. Preliminary fittings indicate that the sweater safely contains 100% of me, but not 200% of me, which is good. After the Lucky debacle, I need a win.
The sweater is close to completion, but I’ve reached sort of a mental block. The sleeves, you see. I want something a little bit more arm-encapsulating than Ms. Ngo’s vision. I see the geometry very simply in my head, and besides Barbara Walker has half a chapter on such things in Knitting from the Top Down, but… arghh, I keep thinking about Spongebob and the sleeves on Glee and some other pre-blog knitting disasters and my knitting confidence takes a big flinch the way I used to flinch after that time I got hit in the face with a softball. Wish me luck.
Speaking of luck and arms! I heard the best phrase evar on Teh Rav this week: “Bingo Wings”. Yeah, I realize this is just another one o’ them slang things that pass me by for years– I was the last to figure out “NOT!” in my middle school– but bingo wings. It is so perfect that it almost makes me want to co-opt it to rally those of us who are annoyed with tiny-arm patterns. Hell, I almost formed a Ravelry Group– if Ravelry’s “Itty Bitty Titty Committee” is going strong, then surely there is a place in the sea of Rav Groups for those of us who wear a Ysolda-Small except for our Ysolda-Large biceps.
Alli said,
August 24, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
I would join that group! We can have threads on substituting xl-size arms into s size patterns. I was going to tell you that I was doing that on my newest sweater pattern but then I ended up throwing out most of the rest of the pattern too and just keeping the design elements with my own shaping.
Also: Do you ever look at Vogue knitting? I just picked my first issue of Vogue and it seems to me that the arms are strangely…normal. The sweater that I am working on currently from them has a 35″ bust and 13.5″ upper arm circumference. I don’t know if that would work for you but it does for me! At first I thought it must be a typo but it seems to work out (according to my calculations).
I’ll keep you posted.