I feel like I'm cheating a little bit here because this isn't a newly completed object. But I lost so much documentation when my camera was stolen that I find myself grasping what I have left with both hands. I made the sleeveless top underneath the outer pocketed sweater (from my Grandma Linn) for a wedding I attended. It is a pattern from Knitty and I used Calmer to knit it up. I generally think that without the outer sweater the shortness of this piece makes me look short and chunky, but I think that illusion dissolves with the outer sweater. I also made the pants. They are a dark green wool from the Pendelton outlet shop in Portland. I have the same fabric in blue and black and hope to complete those pairs of pants shortly as they go together very quickly and have little finishing. They have full, straight legs that look great with my Danskos. What has been holding me up on these is that the first time I made these pants I made them in a nice medium brown and made them according to the size on the pattern. They ended up too big. I made these green ones the next size down. And I think I still need to go down a size. This takes the effort level up a notch as I will need to trace the pattern again. I think it's only three new pieces. But sometimes I'm really lazy and pattern tracing for me means clearing off my whole sewing table (including cat bed and food dishes and sewing machine).
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