Mimosa

Is finally done! But to be honest I am not sure about this one: it looks like it makes me fat visually and I cannot decide on how to close it. Initially I wanted to use buttons, but it looked bad, so here it is without it.



Pattern: Pink Mimosa from Interweave Knits Summer 2006
Yarn: 8.5 balls of Debbie Bliss Cathay in colour Wedgwood/ Blue-Gray for size 3.
Needles: Addi Turbo circulars 3.5mm, 3.75mm (for the st st border, not in the original pattern), 4.00mm and 5.00mm
Crochet hooks: Pony 2.5mm (I can use it any time ;)) and 3.75mm for assembly, closing and fancy edges
Modifications: I recalculated the waist shaping for size 1-2 (1.5), because I do have an unconventional figure; knitted the st st border in identical length to lace border just because I thought stitching them together (grafting) will look better; I don’t like seaming, so instead of binding off the st st border, folding it in two and seaming to the cast on row, I bound it off directly to the cast on row using crochet hook and 3 needle bind off method






In other news, I am going to Russia for 2 weeks tomorrow, but I am hoping to blog from there.

One down, One to go

I had my first of the two exams yesterday. Thank God it is over, next week this time I will be free like a bird, knitting frenzy for all I care.

I haven’t been knitting for a week now, and I have cravings. Seriously the thought of knitting keeps me sane in times like this when I go for 48 hours of continuous studying on pure adrenaline.

Today is the day dedicated to rest, so I have time to blog and show some pics of the current and future projects.

My current project Mimosa from Summer IK 06 (was current before exams). To be honest, I didn’t like it in the mag, just flipped through and forgot all about it. But then I saw it being knitted by Elizabeth and fell in love. I am copying her version completely; I even went for the same yarn in the same colourway. Shame on me ;)

Secondly I think I’ll post a couple of the project I will be knitting soon: Bolero for my sis and top for myself.