Unblocked (so it might end up being too big)
Sides temporarily basted together
Sleeves are not started
The pattern calls for the v at the front but I’m undecided
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That looks amazing.
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thank you. I’m now considering just making a bunch of tank tops in this pattern 
Oh, except that I have 5 weeks to make a shawl for my mom. Trying to decide between a crescent shape or a sideways triangle for the gradient yarn.
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ok, so I’ve started on the Bosc Pear because it is a sideways knit, and I think they look better than crescents when worn. And I’ve always thought it looked good with a gradient. The cotton is exceptionally soft.
In the meantime, I’m thinking about my next sweater (even though I still need to do sleeves for the Lariat). I have 4 colours of DK that are enough for a short sleeve top. (Light grey with dark grey and purple speckle, mid-purple, dark purple, and dark grey)
I’m thinking
or a modified
(I already have one of these which I have called my scarecrow sweater, but that had a lot more variation in colour with green and yellow and grey and red)
Both will scream knitter, but I don’t think I feel like making accessories with the yarn, and there is only 850 yards all told
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I really like the pear pattern, it’s nice.
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It is very nice. And I hadn’t realized but it was done in cotton yarn too.
I’ve reached the first ombre change.
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That looks awesome! Can you please explain about the differences with cotton yarn?
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I am not an expert at all on cotton, but cotton yarn is generally less springy and has less memory than animal fiber, so it behaves differently when you’re blocking. It doesn’t have the same kind of hooks in the fiber, so the stitches don’t catch on each other and do the mini-felting that gives you a more seamless fabric with washing and wearing, they’ll stay closer to the original knitting. But one also doesn’t expect that huge stretching and opening up that you’d get when you block lace with an animal fiber yarn.
And because it doesn’t have that spring within the yarn strands themselves, cotton is generally expected to be harder on the wrists to work with, especially at tighter gauge.
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crochet is total magic to me. How does it happen with just one hook?
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Does it help to think of the shaft as the holding needle and the hook as the working needle? (Since the hook pulls yarn through the working loop, and the working loop is held on the shaft.)
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Meanwhile knitting is magic to me. How do you move yarn around when your sticks have pointy ends rather than hooks? And how do you hold three things (two needles and one yarn) with only two hands?
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oh, i know the topography of the yarn movement, it’s just really cool that it works - it’s like the bumblebee problem
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Haha I feel like crochet is totally the bumblebee of the yarn crafts.
I basically had to make the mental leap I described the other way around before I really got a handle on knitting – oh, my left hand needle was the shaft and my right hand needle was the hook, and I just didn’t close out the loops? Oh, okay…
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I messed up the decreases and have to frog four rows (so of course I didn’t put in a lifeline), but otherwise the sleeve is shaping up well.
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Finally done! Just needs blocking. I’m annoyed that the recommended cast on isn’t stretchy because I’m this would block out much better if it weren’t restricted, but I guess I’ve learned my lesson
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stunning
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Thanks! I’m trying not to be disappointed in it until I get it blocked because it just looks so much bigger in the pattern photos and this feels so small. But there is lots of lace in it so it should grow. I do love the colors and the yarn, it was so lovely to work with
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it’s so funny to me how things immediately look smaller the second I cast off
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It’s so true! I think building it stitch by stitch helps inflate the size in my mind
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