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The Previously Promised Pinky Goodness
March 04, 2005
More Sis! To make the body, you crochet the border of the whole body, but pick up and knit the back and fronts separately. This could probably have been done all in one step, but I'm in a blindly following the pattern sort of mood, so I'm doing it like they tell me! The back was gratifyingly quick, as half of it is the crochet section. Here's a picture of it:
Now only the fronts to go, and they are very small - less than half the size of the back each. You could probably make this entire jacket in a weekend if you didn't have much else on. I partly love projects like that (instant gratification) and partly don't love them (lots of money on yarn, only one weekends knitting). But Sis has pulled me out of a complete knitting funk so I can't complain :)
Sadly that's all the crochet done, and I enjoyed it a lot (there is a double crochet border but that's not very exciting). I have a very old crochet project that I'm really tempted to pick up and finish after doing this (the Bonbon jacket from Rowan 33), and that's with 4-ply cotton so should probably take a million years to complete!
Posted by jen at March 4, 2005 08:39 AM
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Sis is going to look GORGEOUS. Next time we meet up I'm going to ask you to teach me to crochet I think! Talking of which, are you in the mood for another shopping trip in a few weeks? Just let me know..
Posted by: kerrie at March 5, 2005 10:26 AM
That look so lovely!! I seriously need to learn to crochet! I love that sweater, and can't wait to see it finished.
Posted by: Ellie at March 5, 2005 04:40 PM