a little knitting content

Just for a change of pace. So I'm working on a sleeveless pullover/shift kind of thing out of sock yarn. Its probably not the best idea ever, I think the sock yarn might end up being a mite itchy, but I've been thinking of doing it for a while, and accumulating sock yarn like its going out of style (which it most assuredly is not). I know, um, where are some photos? Well, it is spring break, so this evening Sysguy and I will chat about that. He has done his part providing me access, now I just have to figure it out. Ergh. I made a couple of lace rectangles from some sock yarn a year or so ago, and I have been scheming how to integrate them into a garment ever since. I think they will end up being the sleeves/upper bodice of the pullover. The current bits are the front and back which are done in another more eyelet lace pattern, with purl ribs between repeats. I've decreased the width of the purl ribs going up from the hem, to shape for my, um, curves. At the top of the front and back I have omitted the yo's but kept the twists that were the dec stitches, so now I have very tiny cables for the bosom area. This is really nonsensical without photos. I'll be back.

As a pragmatic to a fault girl, I find myself in a quandary with sizing. I like to imagine that I will at some point be a smaller person, and I am loathe to spend too much time and $ knitting up something that my imaginary svelte self will be unable to wear. Of course, the opposite is happening, and I am finding I need to create knitted things that can only exist in a fantasy dimension. Hence the expanding/contracting hemline of the above described pullover. Sigh. It doesn't help that knitting is not exactly aerobic, but I require it for reasons of sanity.