Iris Report

Remember that I told you I had a FO on my last post? I was expecting that I would be showing my Pine Cones but I just didn't feel like to knit up that long border. N Instead I worked vigorously on my Iris. To my own surprise, it progressed so fast that I finished my Iris last week. It took a long time for me to take pictures outdoors. This my second set, the first one was all blurried, maybe because it was taken late in the afternoon. I need to admit it's a bit small for me. I even had to reknit the neckline as my head wasn't able to go through on the first try, even though I have a small head. Luckily, that didn't stop my flow to finish this top. I made my sleeves much smaller than the design and I think with a better cut as well. This design is from an old magazine and the cut is big and have a boxed look. I would prefer to wear this top with a pair of jeans, the multiple cable work seems to fight with my floral skirt. The top came out to be short than I wished. All my new jeans are low rise, just ready to show off my undesired belly. Does anyone know when this fashion of low rise pants will go away and I will be able to find a jeans with normal rise? :D
I like this skirt, it's slightly longer on the back. In the meantime since I don't have a better top to go with, I shall just pair it with Iris. My little blue bag also found her matching friends! It was one of those hard to let it go purchases I got in Las Vegas this past Summer.
Here is a close up of the cable pattern,

Pattern : Iris from 1991 AMU magazine

Yarn : Cometa 100% cotton ( used 7 balls)

Manufacturer : Mondial (Italy)

Needles: Japanese 4 (3.3 mm)

I think Iris will fit me better after I block it ( Yes, I haven't blocked it yet!! I don't have the patience to wait for it to dry out before I can debut it and to post it as well). ;)

Looking at the cables work, I wouldn't think I could knit up without having little troubles in the twistings. To my surprise, I was able to knit without having to follow the chart all the time after a couple repeats and that really gave me a good knitting speed. Besides that, I am happy that I was able to have a very neat seaming on the sleeves and shoulder area. I am so relieved , just to think that I didn't unravell the back of this FO...So It's not so bad to let UFOs sitting a while in your baskets. ;)