Showing posts with label crochet sweaters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crochet sweaters. Show all posts

Monday, December 31, 2007

Good News and Bad News

The good news is...I managed to get the new digital camera software working. Yay! Bad news...I lost all of the pictures I took of all the scarves I gave people. Very bad news. I'm so upset about this. What am I going to do? Go around to everyone I gave a scarf to and be like..."Hey, can I get a picture of that scarf I gave you..." Yeah, no. So, all is left to the imagination unless someone wears one while I have my camera. :(

I took some new pictures of the zip up hoodie I am working on though, so you can see some progress. I'm doing stuff, I swear! :)

This is one of the front panels:

crochet sweater

I like the way the cable looks, and it is going to look so much more awesome when I put it all together with the green cables.

Here is one of the sleeves (I like them long)

crochet sweater sleeve

I might have to go buy more yarn, though I hope to avoid that as I'm sure the dye lots won't match. We'll see. Maybe I'll fanangle some way of incorporating more green, since I have so much of it. Go boucle!

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Soft, gorgeous zip up hoodie

Oh, yeah. That's right. I jumped straight from scarves and amigurumi to a zip up hoodie. I've got the sleeves done, as well as one front panel. It looks awesome and is going to fit like a dream. I'm so excited to get it done! I think my husband is getting jealous of my time with the yarn. :P So, maybe I'll take a day off. Or...maybe not.

Anyway, the hoodie is my very own pattern. I'm kinda winging it, but charting out stitches and decreases, etc, etc before I start a panel. There are six row cable stitches, four row cable stitches, front post, and alternating front and back post stitches.

I plan on continuing the six row cable from the arm to the hood "brim". I'm not sure what I am going to do with the hood yet. I want to make it really cool, and definitely big enough without being silly. The hoodie won't be thick enough for a coat, but it sure will be nice to wear around the house and in the spring when it gets a little warmer. I worked it in hdc's because I thought it looked cramped with the sc's.

I'm going to make some moss green cables to connect all of my panels (the main color is varigated brown boucle). I think the contrasting color will look really nice and the cables just rule. I still have to buy a zipper, but I thought I'd get the actual piece done before I mess around with that. So, one more front panel, a back panel, hood, trim and zipper. And possibly pockets. I loooooooove pockets.

Unfortunately, no pics yet. The new camera software is proving to be difficult to install. So...yeah. One day, hopefully soon, I will post a gazillion pictures. Because I really do have that many. Really.