A series of unfortunate sweaters....

or welcome to my dog basket....
My mother coined this term. My mother lives in New Zealand and if I'm lucky she comes out to visit me once a year. She may argue with me about this but it seems like the first thing she does when she arrives is to ask where my 'dogs' are (not to offend dog lovers, but we're a cat family). My 'dogs' are all my sweaters that have met an unfortunate end and are requiring a little TLC in order to see the light of day. Once she knows what 'dogs' I have accumulated, she sets to work either badgering me to finish the last hour of knitting on the project, rip the unfortunate final death knell of the project, and in some cases reknit the piece (she is a loosey goosey knitter and I'm a tightwad so our gauges are significantly different). My Mum crochets, sews and repairs these horrors and then delights in telling everyone how many sweaters she has fixed (I hope you aren't reading this mum....really I love that you do this). My mother is due to visit in June and this is what awaits her in my dog basket....

The honeymoon cami designed by mind of winter...ahem Mowgli, we can't see the knitting.....go beat up on your bigger brudder...

I brought this yarn in San Francisco in December from Artfibers. It is tussah silk called Siam in Rose blush. I planned to finish this top by the time I got to Tahiti (hah could I have known Tahiti would be that steamy and inappropriate for silk). Anyway I stalled on the straps...I need to make them the same length and then finish them with kitchener stitch. This was too hard (hah) then I lost the need to finish it before Tahiti.

Salina...yes skinnyrabbit has made a beautiful Salina (vintage style, rowan)....mine well....I got the felted tweed in last years sale at Knitaround, but there wasn't enough of one colour to complete a sweater, so I used two different reds and came up with a multicoloured Salina. I didn't like the cuffs and I had just completed cute jacket cuffs on voyage (demin people, rowan) and I'd thought I'd do the same on Saline. Well the first cuff I didn't cast on enough stitches and didn't realise until I reached the arm body. 'Never mind' I thought I'll take the cuff off later and reknit it'. The second cuff I knit identically (except bigger) so I have too left cuffs. I have to take both cuffs off and reknit them and that is what is stopping me finishing Salina.

This was a sweater from Adrienne Vittadini Fall 2003. I thought it might look good in merino stretch...and as a zip up jacket. apart from the fact that merino stretch is very stretchy and I might have made the jacket too small, there is nothing wrong with this sweater except that it needs a zip. Now with wonderful instructions like the ones that chicknits gives I should do this myself....but my mum is very good at putting zips in so I'm waiting for her help.

Comments

[neah's mommy]

When is mum going to visit me?

BTW, it just occurred to me that when your mum taught me to knit, she didnt teach me how to read patterns. Actually, you never did either. So maybe all these problems I am having are all the Siameese family's fault.

[Becky]

P.S. I can see your banner, and I'm on MSIE 5.

[Becky]

Lucky you for having a mum who will fix up those bad boys. And I like the idea of a multicolored Salina, even if she has two left cuffs. Tee hee!