i’m totally unlikely to make a red-white-blue striped garment, i don’t really want to drape myself in the dutch flag (what, did you think i was gonna refer to the US one? that one has stars :).

i’m keeping the pattern though - 8 rows each of stockinette, seed, and garter stitch. the patterned stripes look very understated in the dark denim; i like it. and so far it’s not boring; just enough change to keep from going cross-eyed, but not so much that i’d have to count. watching “burn notice”.

the yarn is shrinky, but cotton stretches -- though this is cotton on the bias, and i am not sure how much that will stretch. i did a swatch, but am basically still winging it because i have no idea how the yarn will behave in a large garment.

2010-09-05
the shrink and the stretch basically cancelled each other out, yay. it fits well. i hemmed with extended single crochet which i like a lot better than single (less stiff), and didn’t (so far) hem the neck opening which might otherwise be a little tight. the feel of the yarn is already much nicer after just one wash. i should not have washed the 2 pieces before seaming; they went a bit out of whack.

NOTE: the first photo is most definitely not MY copyright, it’s the original from “creative knitting” magazine, and the pattern here did not have that photo (yet).