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May 28, 2006
Electra
As promised, I present my Electra here...
You can see the sleeves are a bit too long...let me say that I intended to have long sleeves. I just felt that short body and long sleeves are kind of cool...(of course, short body and too-long sleeves are not the one, and mine looks rather this sort of conbination. I know!) But I am quite happy about the colors! I love this cardi and I would LIKE to wear it in next winter. You ask why I don't say "I will" or "for sure"??
Oh, so you might want to see the inside of it...(caution! are you brave enough for it? are you ready?)
Here it is, the inside of the garment which is not-round worked stripy fair-isle. I have no bravery to count how many odd ends hanging here...and even if I give up to weave in all ends, anyway I have to some to hide the ones which shows from downside or cuff.
In a sense, I am lucky. Because it is no way to wear it now(just to take the photo, immediately I felt too hot with it, in a early-summer evening in Tokyo) therefore I have some months ahead to be ready by the season for Electra. I will weave in one by one, day by day...one day it will finish,I HOPE strongly.
BTW, some of you mentioned the color differences of photos of Gwen. The photo which took inside home, with artificial lighting looks very graysh tone, and the one which took outside looks clearly turquoise blue. The latter is true color. And this phenomenon appears this Electra photos too, the meaning is same.
This week-end I could obtain good quantity of knitting time. I casted on my new project on Friday night and worked a bit:
Same as Gwen, from Rowan #39, Seahorse. Without seahorse version. I love this eggplant deep purple but I don't like so much Cotton Glace...it is stern and hard like rope. (I remember I said same thing when I casted on Gwen with Handknit Cotton, but believe me, Cotton Glace is much harder than that!)
And other than Seahorse, I completed a baby hat and casted on another project...I will show you soon.
Posted by trico at May 28, 2006 11:01 PM
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I don't think I can say enough good thngs about how great Electra looks! The long sleeves look fine to me and complement the short body very well. :) I've always been one for long sleeves though...I'm always cold so I like to pull them over my hands.
I agree about the feel of cotton glace. It's like knitting with rope. The colors are absolutely beautiful (there is a gorgeous shade of deep red called blood orange) but the yarn is terribly hard on the hands. I made a pair of baby shoes in cotton glace and it took me forever to get the tension correct. Well, at least the tank will look beautiful (love the color) when it is finished. :)
Posted by: Marie at May 30, 2006 05:55 AM
Your electra looks amazing! Well done!
The colours are really lovely...
Posted by: impressionist at June 4, 2006 07:39 PM