27/02/2008
Woohoo! All finished!
I had a day off work yesterday, so I glued my pins to my hands and worked like a demon! I'm so so happy with it. I did go for the i-cord in the waist, using the same yarn as for the owls and I love the way that's come out.
So, my firsts were:
1) It's a skirt
2) It's a skirt I designed myself
3) It uses coloured cabled sections
4) I did the seams properly
5) I used i-cord
And here it is in all its glory! Lots of pics here, so I've reduced all the others to thumbnails.
400 points to anyone who can spot where these photos are taken.
Also featuring: my owl gloves, my owl shoes and my owl bag. Oh, yes. Owlie Kate they call me.
Anyway, I just love it. It's just the right length on me, I love the way it hangs and moves (it usually hangs straight down - it's super-windy here today) and it just feels so right. Yumyum.
And finally, this is my beautiful cat, Sabbath, claiming the skirt for his own.
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This is the first knitted skirt I’ve ever attempted, the third time I’ve used anything cable-y (the first was my owly handwarmers, which were originally going to be my entry for this challenge. that post is now here:
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=223034.0) and the first time I’ve brought together cables and intarsia. And because I’m super-clever I thought I’d just wing it this time and I’ve been making up the pattern as I go along. This is also - in terms of the number of stitches and the amount of time it takes to make - by far my biggest ever knitted project.
I started this a few weeks ago, after finishing my owly gloves and wanting to do something else with owls on. I bought the pink yarn last year meaning to make a skirt, but I thought seeing it with owls on would just make my life complete.
The main part of the skirt is being made in four panels, which taper in towards the top. I then plan to join them at the edges and carry on working a ribbed waistband.
At the minute I’ve just finished the owly bit on the third panel. Those sixty squillion bobbins are nearly killing me!
Anyway...wanna see some pictures?
The yarn before I started:
and a close-up of that date
The fourmillion bobbins of doom
The first owl to emerge (note the rather stylish peacock-print seventies kaftan I'm sporting here)
And the first finished panel
