Little Black Dress Progress

Posted on August 21, 2007 by knittingpatterns4you | 4 Comments

(it is really hard to photograph black lace on a rainy day!)

I'm only a few rows away from the armhole shaping! Woo! I guess that's what happens when you diligently knit on only one project at a time . . . good to know.

I knit the entire dress (except for the lace panels) in the round to this point, but of course when I get to the armhole bind offs I will have to knit back and forth to the shoulders. At the beginning I thought my gauge was off, but after obsessively checking it every few inches, it turns out I'm getting stitch AND row gauge exactly! That never happens. I decided to make the dress 1.5" shorter than the pattern calls for, but that's my only alteration other than knitting it in the round.

At this pace I will have a finished dress by the weekend! I'm on vacation this week and I plan to get a lot of finishing done and off the to-be-finished pile: the Punta del Este pullover, the oversize pullover, Nicole, the Ab Fab, and who knows what else.

I haven't been very inspired lately to blog and I fully blame Ravelry. I end up spending so much time looking at projects there that by the time I'm done reading blogs I don't have the energy to write my own. I've been really stressed out lately and not feeling very creative/interesting so I'm sure that has something to do with it, too. Hopefully this week will garner new fresh material! If nothing else I'll have FO shots to post . . .

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4 Responses

Shana
Shana

August 21, 2007

OMG, what are you going to do with 2 of us nudging you? I think your mom’s sweater is missing a sleeve and she could totally be wearing it in this weather if only it were finished ;-) Enjoy the vacay.

Ava
Ava

August 29, 2007

Ravelry has been detrimental to my blog too, and I wonder if it will be the death of some. Not only does Ravelry use up significant chunks of my online time, I find it easier to post pix of my FOs and write short notes instead of composing interesting prose.

Marsha Riggs
Marsha Riggs

December 16, 2007

I have been looking at the Little Black Dress and giving serious though to making it. Do you have any comments, pro or con, now that you have most likely either finished it or abandoned it?

Wanda
Wanda

August 21, 2007

You’re making great progress on the dress! Maybe it will be in ready for your deadline. Enjoy your vacation. I look forward to seeing what you get finished (Mom’s sweater, perhaps?). Yes, I’m a nudge, sorry :-)

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