I am so sorry to see January closing out again as it's my favourite month. A friend asked me why and I realized my full answer boiled down to: I have an excuse to stay inside! In fact, at the moment one of our doors is frozen shut with heavy drifts beyond it, which is why there are no snow angels in this pic.
So pretty out there though... anyway, with snow comes cold, so some of my inside time this week was spent fussing over my newly felted sweater, which still fit like an off the shoulder gown. Time for neckline pintucks!
Thankfully I did still have leftover yarn for the purpose.
There was no way to draw this in without the alteration showing, but I thought if I just added tiny pleats at the very top of the neck and had them face out, it wouldn't disturb the yoke pattern too much.
The extra texture is kinda cute, don't you think? Along with the uneven spacing, which I've decided is more organic than amateurish, ahem.
I figure I pulled in the neck between two and four inches with this hack.
It's still not quite enough to make this sweater perfect, and I'm considering an extra tuck or two, maybe in the back where they won't show as much?
But the sweater stays up above my shoulders now, which makes it wearable, which is in turn very timely. Now to make some felted wool pants to match!
(ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I kid. The crochet blanket is now telling me it will require the rest of my lifetime to finish, so there can be no other projects ever.)
Hope you have some good things coming up in your weekend! and thanks for making me a part of it. See you next Saturday... with blanket progress? who knows. Only eight stripes to go, and then it's border time! I plan to keep warm under it while I'm working on that part, while I admire the snow from inside... February being my second favourite month, for all the same reasons as January.
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