Pattern: A Sweater for All Ages from The Yarn Girls Guide to Beyond the BasicsYarn: Artful Yarns Fable
Mods: Added 1.5 inches to length.
This sweater turned out fairly well over all. I only used 2 of the 3 skeins called for in the pattern, which was nice. I like the fit as well.
However, even though I added an inch and a half to the length it is still way too short. We're talking stomach exposing (see second photo). This is the second sweater I've made from this book, and I had the same problem with the first, although not nearly so bad. I'll definitely be keeping this in mind if I make anything else from the book.
Not a very good photo, but I think you get the idea. Believe it or not, I was pulling it down the whole time I was taking photots.
Since I have so much yarn left, I guess I could undo the side seams a little and add a few inches to the bottom. I'd definitely wear it more if it was longer. What a pain though!
We had a really fun trip to San Diego. The weather was warmer than the mid-60s they were predicting, so we were a little toasty. We stayed in a really nice hotel with an amazingly comfortable bed. It was great!
What wasn't nice was being woken up by the fire alarm going off at 2am! Talk about terrifying. I think we would have been burned to a crisp by the time we made it downstairs if there had been a real fire, but thankfully someone had just burned their popcorn! It was hard to fall back asleep after that.
Saturday we walked to Balboa Park, which was really pretty. The architecture of all the buildings was beautiful and it was very warm. I wish I had packed my shorts!
We had a good time at Petco Park, too, although the Brewers lost both of their games. As you can imagine, Joel wasn't very happy. We had great seats for both games which was a plus though. The food at this stadium was pretty bad, although we had club seats for the second game, so the options were a little better. You can tell what I go to games for!
Before the game on Sunday, we walked around the waterfront for a couple of hours. I was determined to wear the only pair of sandals I brought, even though I knew they wouldn't be good for walking around in. I think I may have jinxed the second game by wearing a Padres bandaid over my blister. Oops!
4 comments:
The sweater looks great! I have finally learned after many too-short sweaters that I must knit mine to be at least 14" from bottom to the armhole, no matter what the pattern says. You might be able to snip the bottom and pull out the ribbing and pick up live stitches and add some inches to the bottom. I did this once when a sleeve was too long (I cut it and re-bound off the cast on edge to make it shorter). It was scary, but worked out.
Glad you enjoyed San Diego - isn't it a cool city?
The sweater looks great (love the color) - too bad that it's too short for your taste. I can't deal with my belly getting a draft!
It's too bad about the length of the sweater - I've just unpicked my most recent to make it longer. I figured I would only leave it on the shelf otherwise:)
Love the sweater! Can't you just wear a long tank under it?!
The color looks perfect on you.
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