Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Turtleneck Shrug... All Done!







Turtleneck Shrug
Originally uploaded by sparklingscraps
Yeah I finished the shrug. This is from Scarfstyle. I made it from Alpacas with a Twist Landscapes yarn. It is silk and baby alpaca, so it is very soft. As you can probably tell my daughter likes it!
I did make some modifications to the pattern. First of all since I knew that the pattern length for the arms would be too long, I knit the neck first and then picked up stitches from the neck and knit the sleeves in the opposite order. That was I could better control how long they got and it would give me the option of adding length later as her arms get longer. When I got to the end of the sleeves I also thought the regular sleeves were a little boring so I increased one stitch in each section of ribbing to give the bottom of the sleeves a little flare. She says that is her favorite part! I loved this knit although the repetitiveness of it made it go on the back burner a couple of times. I definitely would recommend it to other knitters and plan to make another soon!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

OMG!! LOVE! Scarfstyle? is that a website or a mag? and if it's a mag where can I get it and what issue was this in cause I seriously wanto try and make one for myself.

Sparkly said...

Scarfstyle is an interweave press book and totally worth whatever it cost! I love so many of the patterns in it