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<\/a><\/center>\nI finished her in the middle of last week, but didn’t get around to photographing it until Sunday afternoon. It fits prefectly, and I’m over the moon with it.
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<\/a><\/center>\nI made a few changes to the pattern. On the front, I only did half as many picots as called for, as I just wasn’t happy with the way they looked. I omitted them entirely on the sleeves and the band, because no matter what I did, I just could not get them to look like they did on the pattern.
\nAnd I completely rewrote the sleeves, because that itty bitty sleeve was never going to fit around my arm.
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<\/a><\/center>\nProject Specs:
\nButtercup by Kim Hargreaves<\/a>. Only available as a kit, directly from the Kim Hargreaves site.
\nYarn: Rowan 4ply Cotton in Bleached. The kit came with 6 balls, I only used 4.
\nNeedles:2.5mm Knitpicks Options.
\nTime: I started this back in November, but it got put on hold while I was overseas, then again while I finished the Shetland Shawl. If I’d worked on it non stop, it would have been much, much quicker.
\nThe pattern was pretty easy to follow, although the shaping got a bit hairy at times. The stitch counts change on each pattern row, so making sure you were decreasing correctly got a little confusing. Apart from that it was fine, but the band got really boring really quickly!
\nThe yarn was good to work with, although I’m not a huge fan of cotton. This didn’t make my hands hurt as much as some cottons do, but even though it’s Rowan, I didn’t find it any different to other cottons I’ve used. I’m idly thinking of knitting this again for Emily, but if I do, I’ll just use 4ply cotton from Bendigo Wool Mills<\/a>, where I can get 200g for $AU11.50. The Rowan wasn’t bad<\/em>, I just didn’t find it any better than any other cotton I’ve used.
\nOverall thoguh, an A+!
\nAn the weekend, Emily managed, somehow, to coerce Twinkie into something she’s never done before.
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<\/a><\/center>\nThey sat like that for an hour. Too cute!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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