The Divine Miss D

Loving the Denises'. LOVING.

Well, maybe not hugely. Don't get me wrong they are FAB. I just have one teeny tiny thing that irks me. The cord? Could be a little thinner. You know when you are used to a nice thin cord that usually is on a circular, the cord on the Denises' is a bit too thick for my liking. You have to push it a little bit more that usual. I guess cause I'm a fairly tight knitter (I have gotten better, when I was young you had to have big muscles to move those babies along the needle, now they slide nicely) the sts are hugging the cord just a tad.

But other than that, LOVING.


As you can see, Girlfriends School Spirit Sweater (for a Boyfriend called Little Man) (oh that sounds a bit saucy) (really it's very harmless) is coming along great guns, well as great guns as it can with only a half hour of knitting a day if I'm lucky. The Greatness of Denises has come into play with this knit; I found in the increasing that it was all getting a bit squishy on the 16" cord. Solution? Add some more length to the cord until I get to putting the armholes on spare yarn and then take the extra length off again when I don't need it anymore. GENIUS.

Except for one small moment when I hadn't secured my cord properly (it was being hard to twist on so I thought, 'oh, it'll be ok, it feels pretty snug'... until I pulled a little bit too hard and pulled it right off... tense moment of holding breath and threading free sts back onto cord. I tell ya, the old heart was getting a work out.
And I must say I'm also LOVING the top down design of this sweater. No seaming, easy to knit, no seaming, easy to read instructions, great design, and did I mention NO SEAMING?



And here's some Needle Porn just for Rachael.


Oh and the new LYS that I mentioned that Donyale wishes me to divulge. Rubi and Lana in Gordon. (waves to Pamela and Celia see you in a couple of weeks!)