It is way too warm and sunny out today for that big, purple, wooly wonder Vivian to be headlining, I think, so how ’bout an update. Seeing as the Ides of March have come and gone, and I’ve given the federal government its dues, clearly I must be done with at least one more sweater and nearly done with another, right?
Hardly.
This is the body and one sleeve of the incredibly popular o w l s sweater (Rav link) by Kate Davies. Clearly I’m not super motivated to finish this thing since it’s been on the needles for over a month and it seems to have taken most people about a week to knit up. Side note: I need to knit Paper Dolls (also Kate Davies) just so I can walk around singing “people are like paper dolls….paper dolls and people, they’re a similar shape…oooh oooooooh.”
This is my newest knit obsession, started on a 9-hour transatlantic flight, the ZickZack Tunic (Rav) by Melissa Wehrle from the Spring 2009 Interweave. I adore this pattern and this color (KnitPicks Gloss Lace in Aegean) and don’t want to put it down, but I’m at a point of indecision. I have a long torso, and almost always add a few inches to ever sweater, but I have to idea where I want this tunic to hit. I’ve been studying the Knitting Daily Galleries to try to figure it out and I’m still feeling a little lost. Can anyone who’s knitted (or worn, for that matter) a tunic in the past chime in here? Should the ribbing start just below or just above the widest part of your hips? Or somewhere else entirely? Thanks for any advice!
I am a 20-something knitter, skier, baker, runner, homebrewer, climber and dog lover enjoying a surprisingly sunny first winter in Seattle.
Drools! They look gorgeous. I’m also toying with the idea of the zick zac tunic – but I think I will add extra length to it to wear as a knit minidress.