Chamomile

A ladies pull-over with 3/4 length sleeves, and eyelets placard, laced up with leather thonging.

Pattern Source: Yarn: # of balls: Notions: Needles: Meterage: Yarn Source: Colour: Size: Started: Finished: Resting Period: Recipient :

Summer Tweed Booklet Rowan Summer Tweed 7 balls N/A 4.00mm, 4.5 mm 150m/50g Liberty Smoulder 36 25 Jan 2004 22 Feb 2004 N/A Knit Happens

The pattern was very easy to follow, the the yarn diabolical to work with. I found that using the recommended needle size gave me a saggy garment and too loose tense, so I went down to a 4.5mm. I actually prefer the denser fabric. The only hiccup that I had, involved a rogue skein. Same dyelot, but very differnt in colour. I noticed when I joined in a new ball that the colours were wildly different.



I ripped and tried knitting 2 rows from each ball to hide the difference, instead I got a very stripey back, which was cool, but not the effect that I was aiming for.



In the end, I brought the skein to Liberty and the Rowan girls gave me another skein in the same dyelot and it matched the other skeins without any difference. I knit the back of this sweater three times! But only with persistence will you get results.

My parent's cat, Moo looked suspiciously at my knitting, but didn't touch it. He might be an inbred moggy, but he know which side his bread is buttered on... and I won't give him a tablespoon of milk in the morning when I have my tea, whenhe's been bad. My nephew on the other hand has no respect for my knitting, turn my back and the little tyke is there, yanking everything off my needles.



Doesn't it look just fabulous on Liz? This is Liz from Knit Happens. I am very pleased that I wasn't actually knitting it for me.... because Liz has a very petite frame and .... I don't. This is a close fitting garment and Rowan gives it about 2 inches of ease, so for a size 36 garment, the completed measurement would had been 38 inches. I didn't actually measure it, so my tension might had gone bad... but if I made it for me, I would had looked like a stuffed sausage in it.

Project Notes

1. I did most of this project whilst flying back and forth between London and New York. I cast on the back and the front and worked on them simultaneously, because I was too bone-idled to count the rows and didn't pack a row counter with me. Of course, I had to reknit the back a couple of times, so this little trick backfired on me.

2. I also did the sleeves together to make sure that they were the same length.

3. Here's a close-up of the eyelet where the thonging will be threaded through. Summer Tweed is a weak yarn and will snap if you give it a tug. I reinforced this by doubling the yarn at the joins since the garment mught be stressed by having it pulled over one's head.

4. Sewing up was a snap. I laid out all the pieces, lined them up and first attached the sleeves to the body.



5. Then sewed down the side of the sleeves and body. You get a much more even finish and you won't make the mistake of sewing the sleeve on inside ou.



6. Here is the finished article.





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