I should not be in charge of titles. They rarely work out well… ie see the title for this post.
Anyways, I finally finished one of my knitted shrug plans though it is not in any way the shrug it was intended to be.
Remember last year how I said I was going to make a Cardilero?
That didn’t happen.
Did I tell you last spring that I frogged it?
I cast on early on in the summer, and honestly that one didn’t make it far either.
But then I got a library card. And visited the knitting section. And found this book. It intrigued me, as I very much dislike seaming and finishing knits.
The cable was actually from a shrug pattern, Serenity Shrug… but how often do I actually follow patterns?
Especially knitted ones.
So I took the lovely cable and followed nearly the entire instructions for the back… Maybe mixing up which size I was making. That happens a bunch. And then I got close to the sleeves.
Now I was making this in the heat of July. Yes I was indoors, and yes I had air conditioning, but anytime its super exhausting outside, you can feel it inside too, right? So why was I making a fall-weight shrug thing in July?
Don’t expect an answer for that.
I don’t know why I couldn’t understand what the pattern was asking me, but it just wasn’t working for me, so I decided to take out some circular needles and zip away on my own.
The cap sleeves were accomplished by short rows, though they looked terrible the first time around. I had to frog pretty much all the short rows of my first attempt, mainly because then (and realistically now) I had difficulties understanding how short rows were meant to work, and I was also attempting to correct the imbalance of the back of the arcscye being too far back on my shoulders. The second time around I ignored it. I’m never going to see it!
The second attempt was also created with the intention of almost creating an as-you-go-sleevehead.
After completing the cap sleeves on both sides, I decided that I probably would wear it even less if I continued to fiddle and make the sleeves longer. So I stopped and edged the sleeves and main body opening with my fuzzy German souvenir yarn and called it a day.
If it looks a little puffy from the back, well… I don’t have to look at it! And its warm, which resolves many looks related issues. It also doesn’t help that my tripod is short, even for me, so the views are all from below, adding natural puffyness (and the fact that my tiny bow on the back of my Nettie got in the way).
And there you have it!
P.S. In the pictures it does seem to blend well with my chocolate Nettie, don’t you think?