Shadow Stripe Top

This was meant to be a quick and easy summer top. (From Knitter's Magazine a couple of seasons ago) It is very easy, but the relatively fine gauge and the splitty nature of the yarn made it a bit more of a project than I had originally anticipated. It's been so hot though, that even had I finished it a couple weeks ago, it would have been too warm to wear.



The most surprising thing is that it fits! I tinkered with the needle size and gauge (cuz I had my heart set on using some Yarn Art Summer that I had in my stash), so I figured that the finished size would be a guesstimate at best. Sorry, no picutre of me modelling the top cuz I'm home alone and can't figure out how to photograph myself without getting a really unflattering angle of my widest points!

We're headed to the cottage this evening, so I've got some time to get going on the little boy's sweater that I need for next weekend. I'm unhappy with how my swatches looked for the zipped cardigan or wrapped collar sweaters (see stork post below), so I'm reswatching a variation of Devan from Knitty.
Holli Yeoh sells patterns on line (at Bee's Knee's Knits!) for children's sweaters made from self-patterning sock yarn. I couldn't resist JoJo

If that doesn't work, I'll test a moss-stitch and cable cardigan from Debbie Bliss' "The Baby Knits Book".

Anyway, I have to finish packing...have a great weekend!