I know I did not warn you that I was going to disappear for a weekend, but I figure my readership is not large or rabid enough for this to be a major problem. Where did I go, you ask? AlL sOrTs Of PlAcEs.
Friday I went to Hershey park with my mum, bro, and littlest sis. I hadn’t been there since summer of 2003, and this park is rockin’. The project-that-will-not-be-named got shown an amazingly good time. It got to see the Wildcat,
Meet baby prairie dogs,
Chill by the baby wave pool,
Ride in an “Antique” car with the rest of my family, while the youngest member of the party drove,
It even got to ride on the Skytram.
If that’s not a treat, i don’t know what is. Hopefully now it’ll feel special enough that it’ll progress at a reasonable pace.
After driving to PA and back on Friday, Jared & I went back to PA on Saturday to visit my Dear Friend Allison and others of the pennsylvanian persuasion. Leah’s jacket got to go on this trip, which I am renaming the Stairway To Heaven Jacket after I took this picture:
While STH is a joy to make, I am running into a few design snags with it. When Leah picked it out, she liked the basic design of one sweater that had a very wide V neck, and the neckline of a sweater that had a large cuddly rolled neck. I came up with a design for the front that tries to reconcile these fairly mutually exclusive ideas, and I’m not sure I like it. To give you an idea of my quandary, I’ve produced some visual aids:
This is the original sweater’s 1/2 front. It has a nifty beautiful cable pattern that goes up the 1/2 front, then decreases to make room for the V neck.
This is the sweater with the rolled neck’s 1/2 front. As you see, it has wide ribbing that goes up the front and continues up into a cuddly collar. I love the idea of having the ribbed collar continue from the design, so I put them together like this:
sensible enough, right? Maintain the decreases in the cable pattern from the original , but add some ribbing, and match the decreases with ribbing increases that will flow up into a curly collar. The problem is, I think it might possibly look stupid.
Most of the front seen here with my temp cat, SesquaHanna, who is living with me while mum and dad move houses. I love cat-sitting; minimum responsibility with maximum perks. Like sitting babies. Also, she’s shedding, which gives me an excellent excuse for not vacuuming until next week.
So I need your opinions – does this front design look stupid, or should I stick with it? The only other idea I can come up with is to just not decrease the cable pattern, but have a skinny ribbing until the top and march it right into the collar. I am not above frogging (ripping out, for you non-yarnies) – this yarn cost enough that ending up with even a marginally stupid looking sweater out of the deal would be a major shame.
I am also dealing with problems like this:
Sigh.
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