Okay, it might not have been quite that dramatic, but the summary word for the most recent DOCS is: risk. Will one sleeve really match the other? Can I stand using DPNs for two whole sleeves without throwing my knitting across the room? Can I manage to make both shoulder straps look the same? Will it look like I am wearing pants on my head? We addressed these questions and more.
Projects worked: 5
New projects started: 2
Projects finished: 1 (if you count the frogging)
Snacks: Veggies and hummus, potato baguette and basil cheese spread, mini croissants
Donna - It's all about the DPNs. Following in Sam's footsteps with the same sweater pattern and having finished the main body, Donna pulled out her DPNs and continued work on sleeve number one, reinforcing her opinion that the only thing worse than DPNs is having to use them. In spite of that, the sleeve grew in good length during the day. I suppose the real risk here was on the rest of us if Donna's normally-excellent self-control would snap and she would huck some DPNs our way. Those suckers are pointy! Pointy on both ends!
Chelsea - It's all about the using what you already have. Chelsea's been finding herself scouring her rather large home stock of fabrics and trims, rather than haunting the local fabric stores. (She's been haunting the local beading stores instead, but she didn't bring that project along.) She began another tattoo-baring off-the-shoulder shirt. (See previous post for a short description of the tattoo. It's a dragon. It's really cool. I'll try to get a good picture of it next time.) The primary fabric is a soft black wool with wide light pinstriping, and for the trim she brought into play some trim (that she describes as Byzantine) from her home store that had been waiting for that special project. She ran the risk that this would not, in fact, be a special enough project for the trim or that the wool pinstriping would look too much like wearing pants in the wrong place. However, by the end of the day the project was looking good, as is the usual for Chelsea's projects!
Sam - It's all about the sleeves. Being a few steps ahead of Donna on the sweater project, Sam, after quickly frogging a failed wrap candidate with Reed's "help" turning the crank on the winding machine, spent the day finishing up sleeve #2. As opposed the usual practice of knitting both sleeves of a sweater at the same time to ensure identical results, these sleeves are knit separately. The risk, of course, is that the sleeves would come out completely different (or as Sam's put it, the errors would not be exactly duplicated for each sleeve, ultimately leading to a mis-match). But, at the end of the day she'd finished sleeve #2 and it looked just like a twin of sleeve #1--no problem!
Me -It's all about the second time being a charm. Last winter, when faced with some formal events, I sewed a fitted bodice sort of thing out of this cool black-with-red-flowers Asian-style brocade (wrong side of the fabric is shown in the picture, making it look red with black flowers - sigh). Although I made several mockups, my first attempt at the bodice last year didn't fit very well. And, one of the straps came out shaped like a snake that had swallowed a pear and the other looking like it hadn't eaten in months. Mindful of risking a repeat of the great strap snafu of '07, I took another run at it using a smaller pattern size. On the plus side, the straps both look relatively (and similarly) healthy and the fit is better. On the down side, it is a teensy bit too small in some places now. However, I think I can correct. We shall see!
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