Halfway

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Alright...I'm halfway through the motif and I *still* love it. The colors are blending the way I had hoped, and you can actually make out the motif. I was worried it would look like a blob of color.

Considering I cast on last Sunday and travelled for work a few days this week, I'm making nice progress. I'm almost to the armholes.

There are a couple of tight spots before I'll be completely convinced this is going to work out. I need to come up with good armhole shaping (I'm doing set-in sleeves) and I don't want to have to rip it because I can only imagine that ripping intarsia is bad.

I also have to get the neckline to work with the motif. I was going to do a V neck but the motif is so high that I couldn't make it work right (I suppose that might have something to do with my 5'2" height as well). So instead I'm going with a rounded neck with a slit (somewhat V neck, and still very casual). Probably rolled like the hem.

14 Comments

erin said:

I cannot wait to see this finished. It looks great so far.

Dianna said:

The motif is awesome, and the colors are working well!

Jodie said:

The motif looks wonderful. i really like it and the color choice is great.

Lee Ann said:

Wow! It's looking fantastic!

Lolly said:

Jody, this is brilliant! love the colors!

Chris said:

Loving the colors and wishing you luck on the shaping bits. I think that ripping intarsia would be bad indeed...

gleek said:

it's looking great! i can't wait to see it all done!

Jody said:

Looks fabulous!

Did you do your hair? I did. :) I need to provide pictures, though...

Scout said:

Oh that's amazing! When I learned how to knit when I was little all I did was intarsia & fair isle hats. I had no idea how hard it actually was until the past few years and I won't touch it with a 10' pole!!

Jody said:

I absolutely love the color and the symbol. It is fabulous!
It may inspire me to get my act in gear and finish the sweater I started last April! You can't blame me though - who wants to knit a sweater once it starts to get hot!

Heather said:

it looks GREAT--better than that black and white motif! the color is perfect.

i'm about 4 inches from the armholes on my vest--the three of us are going to be fab in our handknits!!!

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