Who plans their knitting projects?

[msmcknittington]

I definitely just have a cold. It's entered the sneezy, tickley stage. It's got this horrible stealth quality about it, so that I'm fine for a while, and then I'm a sneezing mess for up to fifteen minutes of dripping awfulness.

I've decided that I'd like to knit another sweater before I jump into designing myself a wrap sweater out of all that Araucania Atacama I've got kicking around here. So I bought a sweater for a quarter at garage sales this weekend and am busily pulling it apart. I've got one body piece and one arm down, so I'm halfway there.

Now, what pattern? It's gray worsted-weight cotton, but I have another one that's olivey forest green chunky weight cotton to destroy. I'm really looking forward to working with big needles. You know, size 8. Absolutely huge after Thermal (which I still need to take pictures of).

I've found these on Ravelry:

DROPS 73-24 Wrap Cardigan -- pattern, Flickr (That's a yarn substitution. She didn't use a smooth yarn like the one suggested.)

The Slim Hoodie from Knit.1, Fall 2007 -- Flickr.I actually don't know if I have enough yarn for this. It's also very mindless. I think I need something more than that after a two rounds of k2p2 ribbing, knit a row, purl a row, ad nauseum. But I like the toggles.

Cardigan Come -- Pattern, Flickr. Problem: It only goes up to a size medium, and it does not actually say what the measurements for that are, and I also can't find it on the website. Crazy Germans and their site design!

Croisette Wrap-around Cardigan -- Found this just poking around the Lana Grossa website. Again it only goes up to a medium, but looking at the schematic, I'm pretty sure it would fit.

ETA: I forgot a pattern. Bella Pacquita by Marnie MacLean. (Pattern) Mad cute, no?

Back to your regularly scheduled post:

I also really like this sweater from the aforementioned issue of Knit.1, but that much wool is out of my budget right now. Le sigh! Stupid wedding!

That issue of Knit.1 is absolutely bizarre, by the way. It's got a couple of really cute patterns with the typical Vogue photoshoot style ("My concept for this is sweaters . . . and underwear."), some more catalogue-y photoshoots (the diagonal sweater up there), and then some real fug. Case in point. Whaaaaaat? I'm not even sure that's the ugliest one, either.

Opinions? Other pattern recommendations? I'm apparently in wrap sweater mode, so if anyone has some ideas of patterns that would work with cotton, that would be wonderful.

Comments

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

Croisette Wrap-around Cardigan, definitely.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

I forgot to list a pattern! Bella Pacquita. I'd probably make the same changes this knitter did.

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

Remember one's cup size when attempting to knit a fitted sweater like that. ::giggles::

[beraht.livejournal.com]

I misread the opening sentence and thought you said you had a child.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Surprise! I finally had those kittens.

[h0taru.livejournal.com]

I now lust after the Bella Pacquita sweater, so you must do it in my stead*.




* There is NO WAY I'm at the knitting skill level to adjust the pattern as much as I know I'd need to (with ginormous boobs, a tiny ribcage and then enough of a tummy that I don't like).

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Did you read through the pattern? Supposedly you can easily adjust it just by matching up the different charts for the sizes, but I have my doubts.

I'll let you know how it goes, since I'm also in the ginormous boobs and little tummy camp.

[ciorstan.livejournal.com]

Seeing as you are a high-contrast type of girl*, I'd go with the Bella Pacquita over the Croisette. It will skim those curves more flatteringly than a wrap sweater.


*and by that, I mean measurements. You have a nicely defined waist in between everything. I DO NOT. *sulk*

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

You're probably right. One of my favorite store-bought sweaters has similar shaping -- crossover bodice and ribbing to the waist. And Empire waist with the ribbing would have pretty much the same effect.

Ciorstan, I'm sure your waist will continue its reappearance the longer your alien visitors are gone.

[ciorstan.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, probably not likely. Even at my most slender, I was still 33-26-32. Though dropping that 4 inches off the waistline last month was kind of startling.