sleeve conniseur

So I've been working on this t-shirt a book of patterns that uses Adrienne Vittadini yarn. I liked the t-shirt pattern, but wanted to use my Brooksfarm. I finished the front and back in no time flat.

The t-shirt is called "Celia." There's a diagional stitch that is made on the bias, so the patten is contantly moving. I wasn't really happy with the directions that the pattern included, there wasn't much instruction for the moving parts- The YO keeps changing places as you progress, and you have to compensate extra decreases on the end of the row, because of the YO's. I had to take out the shaping when I first started because the sides were extremely lopsided. I did two decreases on the end of the row instead of one and it came out fine.

I haven't blocked it yet so you can't see the shaping, but I promise it's there.

When it came time to attack the sleeves I realized this would look a lot better with long sleeves. I was at The Point last week and I saw the cuff to the sleeve to what I believe is Beth's (and PLEESE correct me if I'm wrong, this is a total guess-) the Union Square Market Pullover.

I really like the cuffs on it, even though Beth said it was kinda hoofy, but I had my friend Maria cut out the shape with a piece of muslin. So I'm tackling these sleeves without a pattern, but I've got the basics and a piece of muslin with the shape I want so it's gotten to a good start. I'm doing both sleeves at once because I know I'll never remember what I did with the first one. It's been quite interesting so far.

Comments

[gleek]

great idea! i think these sleeves will look really nice on that body. you should consider putting in a little YO lace at the top of the sleeve to mimic the eyelets on the body. that would be real cute.

[Veronique]

You are brave to completely wing it! Are you just taking the pattern for the Union Square pullover and modifying it to your gauge? Or do you not even have the pattern and you're figuring it out for yourself?!
By the way, I've tagged you for a meme, check my blog.

[lisa]

Great idea to do both sleeves at the same time! Can't wait to see how it turns out!