MerigoldinWA
04-30-2008, 02:14 PM
This is me attempting to model the French Girls Fifi top I made for one of my DDs.
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q220/JoodieKadoodie/Sweaters/tangarinesweater015.jpg
This top is made of Rowan Calmer in the color tangerine. In the pattern the center panel is repeated down the back, but I didn't do that. I just continued the K2, P2 ribbing all around the back after the yoke. BTW this is made top down and no seaming. DD wanted the top longer than given (it was cropped) and the sleeves an inch longer.
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q220/JoodieKadoodie/Sweaters/tangerinefrontdetail.jpg
This is a detail of the cabling in the yoke and the center panel. I goofed up somehow and knitted clear to the armholes before I realized I had not put one of the cables down the center. :wall: The cables were to alternate, and I alternated them all right, but not in the right order. I thought I followed the pattern, but it was likely my error. :oops: I needed a center cable to run it to the bottom in the center panel, so I undid the center 4 stitches up to where I should have twisted them and put in a cable with dpns and crochet hook. I ended up with 3 cables next to each other, but it looks intentional and I like it all right. On the back yoke I left it with the mistake, because I decided not to run the panel down the back, so didn't need a center cable there anyway.
Rowan Calmer is very elastic and this top looks best on someone with no errant bulges. :lol: A good reason to lose a few pounds. This one was done in the next to the largest size given.
Oh, I found that the neck edge wanted to curl. It would because it is a very wide, mostly st st cable to start off. I later picked up the stitches along the neck, and with a needle 2 sizes smaller did 3 rounds of K2, P2 ribbing to try to tame it. I didn't want to make the addition too long and turn it into a turtleneck. :lol: I think it helped, but if I did another one, I might try to begin with the rib or something to help it lie flat.
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q220/JoodieKadoodie/Sweaters/tangarinesweater015.jpg
This top is made of Rowan Calmer in the color tangerine. In the pattern the center panel is repeated down the back, but I didn't do that. I just continued the K2, P2 ribbing all around the back after the yoke. BTW this is made top down and no seaming. DD wanted the top longer than given (it was cropped) and the sleeves an inch longer.
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q220/JoodieKadoodie/Sweaters/tangerinefrontdetail.jpg
This is a detail of the cabling in the yoke and the center panel. I goofed up somehow and knitted clear to the armholes before I realized I had not put one of the cables down the center. :wall: The cables were to alternate, and I alternated them all right, but not in the right order. I thought I followed the pattern, but it was likely my error. :oops: I needed a center cable to run it to the bottom in the center panel, so I undid the center 4 stitches up to where I should have twisted them and put in a cable with dpns and crochet hook. I ended up with 3 cables next to each other, but it looks intentional and I like it all right. On the back yoke I left it with the mistake, because I decided not to run the panel down the back, so didn't need a center cable there anyway.
Rowan Calmer is very elastic and this top looks best on someone with no errant bulges. :lol: A good reason to lose a few pounds. This one was done in the next to the largest size given.
Oh, I found that the neck edge wanted to curl. It would because it is a very wide, mostly st st cable to start off. I later picked up the stitches along the neck, and with a needle 2 sizes smaller did 3 rounds of K2, P2 ribbing to try to tame it. I didn't want to make the addition too long and turn it into a turtleneck. :lol: I think it helped, but if I did another one, I might try to begin with the rib or something to help it lie flat.