Decision!
April 28th, 2004 at 5:00 am (ingeborg)
So I’ve swatched and swatched, and as Ingrid says in the comments - I should start on the real sweater before I have a sweater’s worth of swatch! I have decided I like the tone on tone the best - with the brighter red as the floral accents. The white is too bright, and the natural, which I thought I would really like isn’t so much different from the white once it’s knit up with the red. I definately like the subtlety of the red on red. It makes for a very rich fabric.
So I have been perusing the shade card for the yarn I’m using, and can’t come up with a band color that I like. The example sweaters in the pattern book show more muted tones as the main body of the sweater and a brighter color as the band. I am going the opposite way (or so it seems to me) and doing the brighter colors as the main body, so I’m left with a band that isn’t so bright, and that doesn’t really appeal to me. I’ll mull it over for a bit, but I think I’m going to go with the darker red as the band color as well. The way the sweater is done, you get a break before starting the pattern on the bottom with a stripe of the flower color. There is some lacy texture in the band, so I think this will look fine even without a second color. I haven’t decided if I’m doing the lacy pointy things yet, those would be put on last, so I can put off that decision for now.
No pictures today - hopefully I can steek my sample and get a shot of that for tomorrow. Oh, and I still have to measure what my gauge is :)
judy said,
April 28th, 2004 at 11:27 am
My gauge came out just right. I hope I’ve written down which size needles I used, or I’ll be swatching again!