Delayed Isabella

Isabella was begun last summer, and set aside for a more pressing project, and then for more winter-appropriate garments. I forgot to get her back out again at the beginning of this summer, indeed only starting again in August. I didn't have too much more to do, though, just one armscye modification and a sleeve.


After knitting the body (modified to knit in the round), I discovered that I miscalculated where the sleeve needed to begin and the armscye was much too deep. It's always something with me. Being too lazy to rip back and redo the under arm bit, I did a cheaterish thing. I picked up stitches across the bottom edge of my malformed armscye and ribbed a couple of rows and then used simple short row shaping to create a curve. It looks nice, I think.

All in all, I'm happy with the product. A little worried about the drape of the cotton (or droop, rather) but so far it's behaving well.

Bonus: Isabelly! First belly shot on the blog...

I forsee baby knitting in my future...

Reincarnation

What was this


Has become this

and is much happier in its new life.



Du Store Alpakka (tynn), about 2.5 skeins.


Well, really less because I didn't bother to unravel the back of the shrug, I just cut it out and knit up the arm/leg until it was long enough to join. The arms-cum-legs had enough width that I didn't even need to shape for the butt any. The fit is a little wide-legged, but I'll tell myself it's fashionable. She loves them!