Finished!
Two finished objects for you. Well... three, actually.
Broadripple socks! Knitted out of Paton's Grace in the Lavendar colorway. I love these socks and knitting them was SO MUCH FUN! Also insanely hard on the wrists. They have a certain slidy tendency and I've decided that I really don't like the heel flap/gusset end of socks. I'm a much bigger fan of the short row. But I figure I can throw 'em in the wash and they'll shrink a lil and be perfect.
I want to make these again at some point (for someone else), because they were SO MUCH FUN, but I have to give myself some time, I think. I made these in about a week. I bet they make great gifts, too.
And I finished this about a week ago, so a day late and a dollar short, here's my criss cross tank:
Knit out of Reynold's Saucy (about 3.5 skeins for the 41" bust) on size 7s, this pattern is from the Vogue Knits Summer 2004. It's the cover, actually. The pattern calls for 2 strands of fingering weight silk held together, which is the equivalent of worsted weight yarn, hence the cotton sub. I increased the waist shaping to pull it in 4" instead of 2", and made it shorter than the pattern's 16" length.
It was still too wide, so I seamed it together three stitches in on both sides and now it fits just fine.
If you plan to make this tank out of cotton, don't forget that cotton has less memory than the guy from Memento, and the tank doesn't have any edging. Any blocking you do to decrease the rolls will be gone by the end of a day. The silk called for originally is inelastic and will take to shaping better. I also did 4 rows of k1 p1 rib on size 5s, rather than 1 row on 7s to eliminate rolling at the bottom. I really needed two more rows, since now the hem flips up.
Also, I started the neckline decreases 6 rows before the underarm decreases, since the pattern wasn't particularly clear on this point and I thought it looked right. As a result, it is extremely low cut and more than a lil revealing, but very sexy. The construction of the tank was quite clever in the use of criss crosses, but other than that, nothing special.
But still. This tank is faboo!
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