Spring Green Sweater

So I'm nearly done making the short sleeve keyhole tee out of Fitted Knits...it's probably got a fancier name than that but anyway, I'm almost done.



I did not do the keyhole, somehow it looked a little trashy, not to mention impractical to me. My bra strap will totally keep clogging up that keyhole. I omitted that, I also lengthened the sleeve. The pattern is for cap sleeves, but I am actually doing just past the elbow. I also ignored the pattern in terms of measurements; it's top down so I kept trying it on and made it truly fit to my shape...cutting in at the waist, back out for the hips which is where mine will hit. I did keep the picot edging which took me two attempts. Picot edging is attained by doing a row of k2tog followed by a yarn over. My error was following the books directions with the yarn over which said to move the yarn clockwise, in reality it's counter clockwise so I had to unravel it and try again. I watched a video on knittinghelp.com which shows that a yarn over is done the same way that you would move the yarn if you were actually knitting a stitch, but instead of moving a stitch from the left to right needle, you just put the yarn over the right needle to create a stitch.



I really like the yarn I choose and am in love with the color. It's a four ply yarn, 2 strands are a grass green and 2 strands are more of a kelly green which gives it a nice varied look upon close inspection. I'll try to get a nice close up pick of it. My only complaint is that there have been a few knots deep down in the skein that I've had to strategically hide on the wrong side of the garment, also one section seemed to go down to one ply, with the other three strands frayed off. Again, strategic placement was necessary to hide this foible...



I'll post pics when I'm totally done...very soon!