Showing posts with label Petiteknit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Petiteknit. Show all posts

Sunday, January 18, 2026

Ivy top finished (knitting)

This was a quick and easy knit. I finished it in about two weeks time (holiday season). Irony has it that it was finished on one of the coldest days we had this winter. So this top will remain in my closet for a while to wait for warmer days but I’m very happy with the result. 

The armholes are finished with a very narrow i-cord and the hem is double. Both are not as described in the pattern, but in knitting I do the same as in sewing: changing things to my preference or figure. 

I like it so much that a second one, not striped, is on the needles already.

Ivy tee

Ivy tee

Ivy tee

Yarn used: the white and blue is Knitting for Olive silk, held double. The green is colourway "Dusty artichoke", 1 strand of silk and one strand of cotton merino. Earlier last year I made the Sylvan tee with this greenish colour. When I bought the yarn I had another project in mind that needed more yarn, so I ended up with quite a bit of that colour. Most of this used up now.

Sylvan tee
As this photo on mee is a bit too yellow (artificial light) below another photo on my dressform.


Sylvan tee

 




Tuesday, December 30, 2025

More knitting than sewing

In the past few weeks I’ve done more knitting than sewing. The sewing mojo was gone. A few reasons for it but the most important one is that I have been redecorating and organising my sewing room. Which has resulted in it being more messy than usual and not inspiring at all. Last weekend the painting was done and gradually I’m feeling I can do something again. 

My current knitting project is the Ivy top from Petiteknit. I’m using remnant yarn from earlier projects of both my daughter (who is an avid knitter) and myself. To get an idea of how to work the stripes I made a drawing of how it could look like:



The result so far is promising.

As the pattern is designed for negative ease, which I don’t like, I used a larger size than I normally would. Even then I added some extra increasess for the bust area. The top down knitting makes that you can easily fit during the knitting process and I think it’s okay. I’ll be ready for summer (which is still a long way off).