Sitcom Chic, Version 1


Yarn: Red Heart TLC in black
Pattern: Bonne Marie's Sitcom Chic
Needles: 6s and 8s
Started: March 2003
Completed Late May 2003

18 Steps to Driving Christina Crazy While Knitting:

1. Find a pattern you think is cool.
2. Decide you want to make it.
3. Do appropriate yarn calculations from Lion Brand Cotton-Ease to Red Heart TLC.
4. Buy a button from you LYS for $3 and buy the required yarn.
5. Knit the sweater in a size large.
(Elapsed time: about a month)
(Read about it here)
6. Finish it, try it on, and throw a hissy fit because it looks terrible.
7. Rip it out and try again. (here)
8. Rip it out and try again. (here)
9. Realize you have been having the most knitting stress that you can possibly have in a week.
10. Rip the whole damn thing out and take a week off to knit some hat.
11. Decide to reknit it as a medium.
12. Knit your little heart out.
13. Have a huge revelation about why the large looked so horrible because you CAN'T READ A PATTERN!
14. Have this revelation after having sent an angry email to the designer.
15. Finish the knitting and sew.
16. Then sew some more (grosgrain ribbon to help curling stop).
17. And you are finally done!
18. Do a big happy dance and wear this classy sweater to your college graduation. (Picture here. I'm the one on the right)

Best part? Classy, warm, elegant, and dirt cheap.

To continue bragging, here is the total:
4 skeins Red Heart TLC ($8) + 1 super cool button ($3) + 2 yards ribbon ($2) = $13 sweater!



A Knitter's Update: February 2005
I don't know what I was thinking when I made this sweater. Oh wait, I wasn't. I made this sweater when I was still in my acrylic phase. Not that there's anything wrong with acrylic, but 100% acrylic yarn now gives me the heebie jeebies. The acrylic doesn't breathe, so it's too hot to wear in the summer.

I also didn't understand the idea behind the sweater. Sitcom is supposed to hit right before your hips, which is why it nips in but doesn't flare out. My version ends below my hips, which does strange, strange things to the body shape.

I ALSO overeased the ribbon when I was sewing it on to keep from curling, so the front seams of the sweater are longer than the rest of it. Again, I didn't know any better.

That said, I want to make this sweater again. It's a good sweater and if I use a cotton blend, it won't be quite so annoying.