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...

Pillaging

Many kind people conspired behind my back for many months, plotting, and my own husband embezzeled money through his "lunch budget" to give me a very special birthday. My husband finally broke down and told me the plan a week before because he was afraid I would agree to work extra hours at my new job that would conflict with his plans.

As vikings of old, we sailed the salty southern sea to trade with and pillage from the lands of the south.

We took an overnight cruise to Copenhagen and spent 1.5 days there. The first day went like this: breakfast on the boat, walking and shopping in the center, pastries around 11, visit a yarn store, check in at the crazy hotel, visit another yarn store, pizza at an outdoor cafe, more shopping, brewery tour and beer tasting (yes I enjoyed this), dinner at a very nice organic restaurant at the old port, and a leisurely late night stroll home.

The highlight was the second yarn store. I can't believe I didn't take a business card or note the name -- maybe I can find the receipt later. It had a large array of beautiful Danish yarn -- it's the brown and pink hanks below the Noro in that bag.

just a part of the crazy hotel room

Izab3llz

Here's one side of Isabella from this summer's knitty. I just finished it, and was starting work at the other side. It was a satisfying piece of work, interesting but not too fiddly.

As usual, I made lots of little changes to the pattern. I always think this will make me feel more in control of the project, but instead I usually feel like I'm flying by the seat of my pants. I put vents at the hemline, lengthened the hemline a bit, added short row shaping in the bust and I plan on adding sleeves. Maybe I'll finish it sometime this summer...

It's cotton "Heklegarn" -- crochet yarn, fingering weight, using 2.00 mm needles.