4 skeins of Silk Garden go a long way (ballet tee)

[Kerry Berry]

For my birthday present to myself back in October, I bought 4 skeins of Silk Garden (color 228 I think, although I don't have a label with me).  I was able to make the Teva Durham ballet top with them.  I actually had a bit left over.  I wish I had planned the color on the sleeves better so that they would be a bit longer. 

Trying to be a model, while not fully understanding the principles of using a flash while standing right next to a wall:


So you can see both sleeves (they don't match, and I'm not sure if I like that or don't).


If you look, you can still see the ladders from my DPNs.

I modified the pattern for gauge and for sleeves.  I had the pattern out of the Loop-d-Loop book, with cap sleeves.  I used Option #1 from Grumperina's guide to adding long sleeves, and it worked really well.

If I were to do this pattern with Noro again, I'd modify the way I did the body so that the width of those stripes matched the width of the stripes on the sleeves.

[PinkMafia]

Its beautiful!

[spentonrainydays]

That really is great, I love the colors.

[GroggyFroggy]

Looks great to me! And aren't you a cutie!

I'm not as creepy as that sounded. 

[hst]

I think it looks great the way it is.  I wouldn't change a thing!

[guessica]

i think it looks awesome.  you can't engineer silk garden too much - better to let the stripes go as they are.  this is the first ballet tee i've seen in a non-solid color - it looks fabulous!  what # of silk garden is it?

[LadySpankington]

I really like it! I wouldn't worry about the sleeves, like them non-matchy

Great job!

[starghoti]

It looks really nice!  But does it itch?

[linda63pt]

It is superb!  I love silk garden.  I even washed it and it gets much softer. 

[Shan]

Beautiful. I think it looks perfect and fabulous.