sizzle-has-arrived
Wow. I feel bad for neglecting my poor knitting blog, but my internet connection has been absolute crap the last few weeks. Hopefully it will be sorted soon so I can get back to bringing you my regularly scheduled knitting adventures.
So…Sizzle. It’s finished. Yay!
It’s not perfect in any way shape or form, but it’s my first garment so I’m excited! You can click the pic on the right to embiggin, but be warned…it’s kind of risqué. I definitely need to wear something underneath it if I plan on wearing it out in public. I knitted the smallest size. The dilemma is the fact that if I went up a size the garment in general would be too big for me, but the smaller size is obviously a bit small across the bust. I definitely plan to knit this again so I think I’ll add a few more bust increases as well as a few extra inches for length because it’s a lot shorter then I anticipated.
Also, you can see that my V is a bit wonky. I obviously didn’t connect it at the bottom so I have a weird U shape going on, but hey, it’s original. I thought about ripping the neck finishing and starting over, but I decided to leave it just because. In general, I’m happy with the finished result although I’d make the V deeper on the next one and increase the armhole length. The V was a nice depth before I added the seed stitch but is now a bit higher then I would’ve liked. Plus, the armholes fit perfectly without the seed stitch so I omitted it altogether because I don’t think it would’ve actually fit had I added the finishing.
And speaking of finishing…hooray for taking the time to actually seam this baby up properly. I’m very proud of the fact that I sat down and made friends with mattress stitch. It really does make all the difference in the world and it’s so easy to do! Thanks to all of you for the encouragement along the way.
Oh, and before I go, I just wanted to say a special hello to my SP9 pal. She’s incredibly cool and we’re having a great time emailing back and forth and getting to know each other…I just wish I knew who she was…the curiosity is killing me! I’m going to make some hand dyed yarn for her just because she’s lovely.
And that’s that. The jury is still out on what my next project is going to be. I have some lovely Bendigo Mills yarn staring at me just waiting to be knit into something fabulous. There are a few socks I need to finish and I’d like to make another garment. We shall see. Decisions, decisions!
