Showing posts with label 2009 loose fitting top sweater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2009 loose fitting top sweater. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Hot Hot Vesper


Today's weather is high at 33deg, a hot and humid early afternoon. These are taken from my kitchen window.

See how my clothes swaying in the hot wind.


I must be crazy to cast on Vesper in such a hot hot humid weather.

I guess love wins !

I love the loose fitting, simple top down with a pocket design. Pleats are hand stitched after the knitting is complete. I think this will be a big challenge for me as i have never done pleats before, and would like to see how my hand-stitching skill is on a knit top.

This is the first time I have 360 cast-on stitches on a 32" circular needle. I have to tie short stash yarn (left over from the crochet granny squares and other projects) to mark every 50 stitches.

For those who like to knit Vesper, a kind reminder - please leave long enough yarn.

As this is a long-tail cast on, i started off with my 5 arm length of yarn, thinking that it will be enough, but alas, I am 100 or so stitches short. Oh boy !! this is the first time that I cast on 500 over stitches at one time!! I can feel the numbness on my left hand fingers.

This is so far my work-in-progress looks like. I hope to finish as soon as i can before my love for it "dies" out due to the heat wave even though i m in an air-con room.