Tubey or not Tubey? (I couldn't resist :P) (Adriana)

Tubey is done!! I actually finished on Tuesday but I had to wait until I arrived at Heather's for pictures. Heather, Gen and I hit up a not-so-local yarn store and I spent too much money (but Heather was good, just getting what she needed to finish something). Due our adventures and a forgotten camera, we missed out on natural light so we had to get creative:


Finished Tubey in the floral department at the local Loblaws :)
(Please note that you are not "technically" allowed to take pictures in Loblaws. The kind florist lady said that we could do it as long as we were fast)


Just smellin' the flowers (I'd like to say that this picture lies and I do not have a big gut as it seems to show. That's all bulging fabric)


Tubey in all it's glory


Artsy shot!

This is, of course, Cassie Rovitti's Tubey knit in Mission Falls 1824 Wool (Natural, Teal and Mallow, I think). It was a pretty fast knit, done in 16 days. I love this wool; this is my second sweater made of it (and I have enough for a third). I think that this is my favourite handknit sweater (I especially like the bell sleeves) and I promise to wear it lots!
I tried on my sweater as I went along (the plus side to the unusual construction) to determine length and location of stripes. Unfortunately, MF is a very heavy wool, especially when wet so it stretched A LOT during the washing process. This resulted in a larger, or rather longer, garment that had been planned. I'll need to get the boyfriend's help next time to try to keep it in shape. Thank goodness for the elastic quality of wool.

Inside the Tube (Adriana)

Don't get me wrong, I love knitting sweaters. There is something so satisfying about making a garment you can actually wear. That being said, you do get the feeling that you are stuck in a black hole where no matter how much you knit, you don't seem to get anywhere. This isn't just me. It's been documented by other knitters.

To keep things interesting over here (and so that Heather doesn't have to do all the entertaining), I decided to take some pictures of the inside of Tubey. They didn't quite turn out how I had hoped (they ended up being more weird than artsy) but I'm going to show them to you anyways :)




Please stayed tuned for proper pictures of Tubey within the next few days.

Cleo sez:

"I love when my mama knits because I get to play with her yarn!"

First you make a tube.... (Adriana)

In fall 2005 "someone" (*cough* Heather *cough*) told me that Mission Falls was going out of business. I had fallen in love with their worsted weight superwash wool so I bought enough to make three sweaters (for the record they were going out of business but are back now). I made Tempting exactly a year ago but decided against making any more sweaters until I'd gotten down to my goal weight. Since I'm almost there (10 more pounds to go!!) I decided to knit Tubey with wool purchased specifically for that pattern. After working at it for a little over a week I am now done the first tube (the arms and back) and ready to start the body. But I am suffering indecision regarding the striping of the body so I wanted to get some feedback.


Arms at sides


Look! I can fly!!

So, as you can see, I did three stripes just above the elbow. I still have a little over two balls of purple and a little less than two balls of the blue (and lots of the cream). Initially I had been thinking about doing the upper portion in cream and introducing the stripes around my waist but now I'm concerned about the corset effect. This is my first time working with stripes so I'm apprehensive that the end result will look terrible. Any thoughts on this matter would help greatly.