My Dragons
Off and Away
The box o'yarn for Twining Ivy arrived last night, and, despite all my good intentions of working on the Big Fleece Thing for Liam (which has been a saga in and of itself), I cast on instead. I'm through the bottom seed stitch band and into the first stretch of stockinette before the decreases for the waist shaping--this thing might not be meant exclusively for larger women, but I'd like anyone to be able to get a good-looking sweater out of it, and waist shaping is very important for that.
What I'm mostly concerned about is that I'm basing all my measurements for this test version on me--I am, after all, going to wear it. Which is fine for the first-pass "Is this a plausible design?" version, but for the production version of the pattern I'm going to have to get some data on more typical bodies, because I know quite well I'm insanely short-waisted. My rib cage ends all of an inch above my waist; this is one of the reasons I've gotten into making my own clothes, because it's so damn hard to find things that fit. But it also means I can't assume that my measurements are typical.
The handy thing about this design is that, with all the vine design done in appliqué, the body is just plain stockinette with the occasional decrease. So it's nice boring watch-a-movie knitting.