Finished my Veronica from Sweater Girls. Like most of the people who’ve made it, according to Ravelry, I only made the top instead of the full top and skirt, but I’m pretty pleased with it. I used Bamboo Pop from Webs which is a slinky bamboo blend with bright colors. It can be a little unforgiving if you drop a stitch because if you don’t catch it immediately it will drop several rows. It’s also surprisingly warm, which is good for this chilly time of year. It’s a testament to my fudging skills that the seaming turned out as well as it did, because somehow I accidentally knit the back a full inch longer than the front. Brilliant.
Both back and front are knit the same (unless you’re a measuring school dropout, like me), and the sleeve edges and neck are finished in a row of single crochet. I think it would be easy to make it a longer-sleeved top because of the way it’s constructed, you cast on stitches for the sleeves and knit them straight. It would be easy to customize the length to whatever you wish.
Next up on the ‘catching up on old projects’ list is my Stone Walls from Folk Vests. Knit out of Patons Classic Wool, this will make a good layering piece winter. Nice change of pace to go from solid gray stockinette in the twin gray sweaters, to lacy green leaves, to copper cables.