My Sort of Famous Sweater
I knit. I also work in theatre. Amazingly, a few months ago, those two worlds intersected. My theatre put on a show where the main character knit. I taught the actress playing her how to knit (how'd that work? not so well). And then the costume department asked me to knit two sweaters in two weeks for the show for a modest fee. Extremely modest. Like Victorian swimsuit modest. And then I laughed at them. Not because of the fee, but because of the time frame. I said I'd take one.I got the yarn and the costume sketch the day before I got mugged, two days before I took a personal day because I was having dental work and the Martin Luther King weekend. Then I got mugged. And I did not leave the house for four days. (I'd been mugged, I wasn't exactly in the mood to go clubbing, yanno?) I drank a lot of wine and I knit this sweater.
I know, I know, it looks like it should be fore Ronald McDonald instead of for a theatre. I followed the costume sketch almost exactly, and let me tell you, it hurt me deeply inside the entire time.
This is yucky, yucky acrylic yarn held double and knit on size 15s. To get the vertical texture the designer wanted, I knit the body sideways and did 4 rows of stockinette, 4 rows of garter. Drop shoulder. Nothing too fancy. I made up the pattern on the fly and while I could probably figure out what I did and post it... umm... why would I? Are you going to make something so... unique? No.
Imagine my suprise when I sat down to watch the show and realized that one of the other characters wore the sweater for 85 minutes of the 90 minute play. Woo hoo!
