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These are my works-in-progress... mostly knitting stuff, but also the beginning of altering a sweater slightly so it's a style that flatters me more than its current style. Very photo-heavy (around 8 pix, I think), so beware - this will take a while to load if you're on dial-up. Tell me what you think! (well, as long as it's positive... :)

OK, first of all, there's the sweater. These are strictly "before" pics, on this one. I found this for $15 at Marshall's a few months ago. I love long cardigans, but the sad fact is that this belted style that's been everywhere the last few years just does NOT flatter me at all. Still, the sweater is in a pretty red ribbon yarn, and would cost so very much more to make, so I'm game. The belt loops are tacked onto the garment, rather than being an integral part of it, so they'll be no problem to remove. I have purchased pretty, slightly ornate red buttons that match the sweater well. I will use either the belt loops (whole, by themselves) or the belt (cannibalizing it for yarn for me to knit with) to make button loops. Then, the cardigan will flow more like a tunic, and actually look nice on me. yay!

Second thing is the halter top that I'm working on, from Lily M. Chin's book The Urban Knitter. It's made in a purple shade of Muench "String of Pearls" yarn. This yarn is a cotton tape with a shiny string running down the middle of it - a silky fiber that is darker than the cotton part, and is overlaid with a kind of iridescent mylar strip. it makes the sweater a little bit dressier and more fab. :)

Third thing is the hat I'm working on from the Noro book - I have significantly altered their pattern. It probably won't make much sense to anyone, since it's basically a scarf that you knit and then wind up and stitch a certain way. If I scanned and posted the construction chart, it wouldn't be as much of a headscratcher. I just started this (again) today. It's the one in the double-moss or broken-moss or whatever stitch, cos I didn't like their version of half-fisherman's-rib and I didn't like my attempt at 2x2 ribbing (it looked fine, but wasn't right for the design of the hat).

This is the purse-front made for my cousin from Rowan Biggy Print in Splash. I believe it photographed looking a lot more aqua than the yarn actually looks - IRL the overwhelming impression is more of blueness than greenness. You can see the garter ridges if you look carefully. This is a bit of a mess because it hasn't been blocked or anything yet. I'm going to get some less-expensive yarn with which to complete the bag. This is the yarn that started out as a hat, and confused me endlessly because you get less Biggy Print in a skein than you do Big Wool, and I kept knitting the hat (from a pattern written for Big Wool) and having to stop in the last three rows.

This is the most beautiful scarf ever, which I started months and months ago and still haven't finished. After I'd cast-off, I found another ball of the (hideously expensive and hard-to-get-in-the-US) yarn in my stash. I needed to redo the fringe on one end, because it was uneven, so I took it off and started over. However, I might just pick up some stitches and knit most of the rest of the new ball of yarn. This one is 100% thick-and-thin merino wool... kinda like Colinette's Point 5. I'm not sure what else I could do with a single ball of yarn except maybe knit some small matching mitts.