i'm back!
I was the second person to finish the jacket, but I'm back to square 1: I gave it to my mom this weekend, as her early Mother's Day gift, and it's too small! I overestimated how much smaller than me my mom is. I'm going to take it all out this week and start over. Here's how it fit her yesterday:
Hopefully I'll finish it soon! She showed me her copy of Interweave--she'd folded down the corner on the Sunrise Circle Jacket Pattern, which means I made a good decision in making this for her!
posted by Mintyfresh @ 8:12 AM
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MINTY! I cannot believe that you have the patience to pull all that out and start over. I'd be so downhearted that I would take it outside and run over it with my car! Good luck.
Oh... how frustrating. Perhaps you could convince your mum to go on crash diet instead? :-) I commend your patience!
Sadie--you made me laugh out loud at the idea of driving over the sweater with a car! Lucky for the jacket, I don't own a car (though I could put it in front of a bus, I suppose!). It's dismaying, but the promise of a happy recipient is going to help me get through it. Problem is, I was very very careful and thorough with sewing in the ends. Sigh!!!
Paisley--it's funny to suggest my mom go on a diet; I should have said something :) She's so tiny as it is, I thought I was doing a good thing by keeping the sweater fitted.
oh no! that's so sad! it's so lovely too... good news is that i knitted the 35" one and it's still a quick knit. it will be worth it in the end :)
Bummer! Do you have any other relatives/friends who it might fit and you could gift it to them? I would hate having to rip out, I'd rather start over on another one! You are more patient than me!
Well, it's wool, right? Can't you try to block it wider?
You know what?! I like it just the way it is!! I think that you could just remove all the buttons and the top and bottom loops - reattach one button in the middle on the edge - DONE. I also think she would like it too. It would be a more conservative sweater.
Sorry - I didn't notice there were 4 buttons. Remove all the buttons and just put one back in the middle toward the edge. It seems to otherwise fit her fine.
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