...the thing about knitting sweaters is that its not very exciting! Especially when they're majority stockinette stitch.

Hense the lack of blogging, mainly because of the lack of blogging content :)

My orangina is on the back burner again - it is winter here now after all :) And i'm almost finished with Wicked, done in Malabrigo Sealing Wax. I'm about 1/4 through one sleeve with the second still to go. Unfortunatly the only pics i have are a bit old, they're taken before the pocket was put on:






Its a little bit shorter than I would like and the pocket is WAY too small, I've only seamed up the top and bottom, there is a little on the sides that can be seamed as well but if i did I would never get my hands in! As it is there isnt much room for them!


I want to see what blocking does to the length of the garment, scarves that i've made in Malabrigo have lengthened quite a bit. If that doesnt help i'm going to rip it back redo the pocket so its bigger and lengthen the top overall.



I've also noticed that the neckline has started to droop just with trying it on a few times to gauge lengths. If it gets really bad after blocking i'll try crochet chaining around the edge and as a last resort I read that someone thread some yarn around the top and tied it off to keep it tight.
*EDIT* its not drooping, its the sleeves! The extra weight of the sleeves is pulling the yoke so much that its almost falling off my shoulders!!


I'm itching to get onto something new, i've been pawing though my Harmony Stitch guides for a stitch to incorporate into a shrug with the georgeous Lion & Lamb in Edgewater. I was thinking of knitting from sleeve to sleeve, very much like the Dream in Colour Shrug (ravelry link) Pictured left :)


But i'll have to see how the Edgewater colouring fares with that stitch pattern, I have a feeling it will be too busy for a delicate stitch pattern.


If that fails I think i'll have to fall back on the Anthropologie Inspired Caplet (ravelry link) which is just a basic raglan shrug, which i've knitted before... many moons ago, it was my first wearable finished knit. It turned out much too big and far too hot (it was acrylic yarn) but I learnt a lot from that knit :)