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One week after casting on, my mother's birthday present is finished! Picovili is a super easy pattern that knits up like lightening. I used the picot edging, knitting the hem into the neckline and stitching it down around the bottom and sleeves. I added a few extra waist increases to give a little drape around the midriff and also added about an inch and a half at the bottom. My middle aged Mommy doesn't need to be sporting any crack, yanno? My major modification, however, was to add some little cap sleeves. These did work out just as I suspected, but it took a few attempts before I discerned how many straight stitches to leave across the top of the shoulder to give it a nice rounded shape (answer: twenty). Also, when working short rows and watching Borat on the television, it is a good idea to pay more attention to the short rows than Mr. Cohen. I, um, maybe had to rip back a number of times because I worked the turns at the wrong points. Perhaps. Anyway, the top is cast off and all the ends are woven in. Now I just need to do some blocking magic to try to reduce the dread stockinette roll before wrapping it up for ma mere. I hope she likes it!
(And then before bed last night I stitched up the neck and button bands on Marilyn's Not So Shrunken Sweater. All that is left is teaching myself to crochet so I can apply the ruffles. Obviously this means the next item to make my list of finished projects is the Monkey socks--I've made it about halfway through the instep of sock number one.)
