Wore Juliet to work today and got a compliment, which is always reassuring. And not of the "did you make that yourself?" variety! Finished Juliet in the car on the way to Hull on Saturday; made one error which was that I attached the button loops on the man's side rather than the womens. Considered undoing it, then thought "why do we have a man's and woman's side anyway?" so decided to keep it, and turn Juliet into a kind of gender deconstructionist statement. Waiting til someone notices to have that conversation with them. No one has so far.
Pattern details:
Juliet; pattern available from Zephyr to download for a small fee. Link is a few blog entries below.
Yarn: Wendy Chunky 75% acrylic 25% wool. Used just short of 3 100 g balls. Very cheap project in a seasonal colour. Kind of ashamed to admit my habit of using wool/acrylic mixes...
Needles: 6mm so a fast knit.
Buttons: Vintage, from button box.
Mods: Made the bottom garter stitch edging longer to balance the cardigan - felt it was too short with just 3 rows so did 6.
So - after feeling holier than thou for finishing Juliet (and numerous other projects recently) I did yet another C&G sample - I will eventually finish Module 1 - and then cast on for a new project yesterday. Its the cape from RYC Classic Weekend. I'm knitting it in...you guessed it! Acrylic/wool mix (wool rich though) in black, aran weight, from stash. There are lots of capes in the shops at the moment and I've been hankering after them, but also wanting to save my pennies.
Also made more progress on the 80s sleeveless sweater, although had a colour consultation recently as a birthday gift and its not really the right colour for me, so might end up gifted. Possibly. It won't be everyone's idea of wearable.
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