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Pattern: Meridian Tunic Dress from Twinkle’s Weekend Knits
Yarn: Louet Euroflax Sportweight in black, pure white and shamrock
Completed: March 2008
Modifications: None
I’m not sure in what skanky world this would be considered a dress, it covers not even half my ass…I even had the right gauge. I swatched and everything.
But I like it as a shirt. And I had been wanting to do the Twinkle stripes since I hadn’t with the shopping tunic. I think doing the stripes with the chunky wool would be horrible on most people that aren’t unhealthily skinny, so this was a good opportunity since I used the very un-bulky linen. The linen was actually nice to work with–not so soft but I think the stitch definition and the vibrancy of the colors are beautiful. And it does feel quite nice and cool on. A little like chainmaille but I like it. And I’ll be washing it soon to soften it up.
One issue I had with this yarn was weaving in the ends later. Having four strands of it made it especially difficult, but linen itself is so smooth and hard that the weaved in ends tend not to stay in place. So the inside looks horrendous with all sorts of long ends poking out. I suppose that’s not so much of an issue, but I have to make sure when I put on the thing the ends aren’t poking through on the wrong end (you can see a stray end in the first picture). Any way to fix this problem?
I only noticed one issue with the pattern: it lists two needles, a size 15 and a size 11, but it doesn’t tell you when to use one or the other. A few months ago in my inexperience it wouldn’t have been obvious to use the 11s for the ribbing and the 15s for the body. And anyway, I used 11s for the whole thing to get gauge and it was already holier than I wanted it to be (looser knit, not blessed…). Four strands were annoying enough, I wasn’t going to go up to 5.
I like this one.
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