Tank Madness…
Well, I finished my first skein of yarn on the Shapely Tank! Whee! I have two more increases to go. Then, according to my calculations I have to squeeze in the short row shaping for my bust right away after so that is all done in time to start the arm hole shaping at 14 inches. That means I have to decide soon whether I should do one or two sets of short rows. I’m on the C-D line cup-wise (I know, more than you ever wanted to know), then yesterday I was meadering through the ample-knitter’s gallery and noticed one gal said she was a DD and she only did 2 sets of short rows… I’m thinking maybe one as I’ll be at 3.5 inches extra circumfrence from my chest measurement anyway… Anyone have words of wisdom for me on 1 or 2 sets of shortrows?
Also while strolling through the gallery I noticed at aleast one gal said she did the shapely tank in the round. Ever since I figured out the short row shaping I was wondering if I could do it when knitting in the round (I’m terribly scared of the seaming process, LOL). Do you just temporarily split it in two like you do once you get to the arm and neck shaping? If you are just doing it for the bust do you just split early to do the short rows and then seam at the top? Inquiring minds want to know (and are not ready to delurke on the ak list *grin*).
What I am noticing is that my hands are tiring of the smallish needles and the 100% cotton yarn. So, my SIL2′s birthday is coming up in early May and she is in tank tops nearly 24-7 in the summer. So, I’m going to make Sigma for her. We normally set the price range for b-day gifts around $20, but I splurged and found yarn to make it for about $40 and on size 10.5 needles and from non-cotton so it’ll be a nice break. If I recall, we skimped a bit on Christmas for her gift so it should all be a wash in the end. As I figure it, with it in the round and her being a medium it shouldn’t take me much longer than it takes me to knit a couple hats so I should have no trouble getting it done in a month. I hope.
Since I’m also tiring of solid color st st, I’m going to make her’s stripey. I’m using Kool Wool (I sure hope they are right about it being good in all seasons) in Grass and Eggplant (her two fav colors, though the web site does not do them justice). I’m not positive if I’m going to do a Fibonacci sequence thing or even striping or random striping. I figure I’ll swatch and get the pattern transcribed for this yarn and her size and then make the big decision. I’m leaning towards the Fibonacci though since she was a math major in college, plus I just *love* the look.
Off to swatch…
