Upside down

I had this pretty yarn, light grey, black with silver and gold threads and balls. It was unfortunately both itchy and a bit over done. So I decided to mix it with grey alpaca fleece and knit the ballerina pullover from Stefanie Japel’s Fitted knits. I’ve never done top-down knitting working on circular needles before, but I know that I will do it again. The nice thing with it is that you can try it on while you knit, if you put the stitches on a thread or an extra circular needle. This gives a great opportunity for fitting. In addition, when the knitting is done, you don’t have to sew 4 pieces together. That always bores med out.

One particular difference between Stefanie’s knits and things I’ve seen before is the increases and decreases done very close to center back instead of at the sides, being a design element in itself. I choose to modify that part, moving the increases and decreases to be between the sides and center back, resembling what you do when you are sewing. I also shortened the distance between the cables to get more turns.

When it has the desired length I will pick up the stitches for the sleeves. The knit looks a lot better in the mirror than on these pictures. ;)

Errata for Fitted knits can be found at glampyre.com