Still Here, Kind Of...
I am not one for a lot of knitting in progress pictures, but when you have taken on a project like the A-Line Skirt from the Spring/Summer 2006 issue of Vogue Knitting, you should probably become one of those people or stop paying for web hosting. Yes, I really am working on the skirt. Yes, it really is coming along. This is a knee-length skirt knit on size 2 needles out of Koigu solid color sock yarn, which, for those up on knitting terminology, is basically one of the biggest garments you can make knit up on just about the smallest yarn you can find (any smaller and we'd be calling it thread, here). I have been working on it seriously for about two weeks, and while the progress is slow, it is coming along really nicely:
Yes, that is two weeks of work. Roughly 80 rounds, each round is 360 stitches and takes the better part of 30 minutes to get through. Sometimes it is depressing, and then you suddenly realize you've actually gotten an entire inch knitted up, and for some reason this motivates me rather than reminding me how sad it is that an inch is a lot to me. A skirt on sock yarn? Never again, but I hope this one will be worth it.
Here is a close up of the stitch patterns so far - these are the bottom "lace stripe" and almost half of the middle "block" sections.
I decided to use the dark brown with pink trim because I tend to think darker bottoms are a little more universally flattering than light pink ones. Plus, there is something about the dark brown/pink color combination that feels a little more classy and more adult than pink and white, which kind of reminds me of a church picnic.