Friday, March 5, 2010

A Late Entry . . .














Hi Everyone -- I'm a newcomer to this project and am so excited to have found it. I really hope we can continue knitting beautiful sweaters for next year. I only learned of a4A about a month ago, so I only completed one sweater for this year. It was so luxurious to work with 100% pure Alpaca. Sigh. So soft. Anyway, I thought I'd share my photos. The zipper made it especially fun. I really enjoy seeing all the photos!! Keep on knitting and crocheting my friends!

5 comments:

Judy said...

That sweater gives great coverage - the zipper will keep it snuggly around the kid. Love the color.

Kathy said...

Welcome to the community, Deborah! What a gorgeous sweater - I really like the cables and brown border and collar lining. It's clear you're a skilled knitter! And soon we'll have another campaign. Some A4A knitters stockpile in advance, I tend to like to respond campaign by campaign.

Jane said...

Beautiful sweater! Never thought of using the words zipper and fun in the same sentence!

Nandini said...

What a beautiful (and beautifully-constructed) sweater. Your attention to detail is really admirable. The gauge of the sweater appears very fine - what size needle did you use? And...just HOW did you do the double-color collar? :-) Is the collar knit to twice the desired length and then folded over and tacked on the inside? From the photo the collar looks almost double-'sided'...!! Fantastic!

Deborah in Los Angeles said...

Thank you, everyone, for your lovely comments. Nandini -- to answer your questions -- I did use relatively small needles. US Size 3. It seemed to give it a nice close-knit warm feeling. And you guessed the secret of the double-sided collar. That's exactly right. The first half of the color in the main color was in K2P2 ribbing, and then the second half was in stockinette on an even finer needle. US Size 2 I believe. Then tacked to the inside using the main color yarn so that the contrasting color did not bleed through to the front. This fold-over design neatly encased the top of the zipper. That pattern is from a Rowan book called Rowan Junior from 2002. The pattern itself is called Trixi. I changed it up just a bit by adding two rows of single crochet of the contrasting color along the zipper opening -- I think that gave a smoother placket. You cannot tell so much from the picture, but the contrasting color is a really rich olive green called Tapenade. Blessings to you all!

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