From the closet
From an old box, actually. I’d bought one of those disposable CVS digital cameras long ago and taken pictures of various knitting projects of, and then promptly lost. It surfaced today, along with a few other prints of other project photos. I got the camera developed, but need to find a scanner for the prints. Clearly, either that camera was particularly bad, or my snapping skills have improved since then. But lookee:
I don’t know why they look like they’re too shy to fully emerge from the closet, with my black kameez in the second pic as if hanging from a meathook, but these are sweaters I made a few years ago. (click on them for larger images: they look better). The fuchsia (it was not as bright as the photo suggests) was adapted from the Wonderful Wallaby pattern and made with Brown Sheep cotton fleece. The kit was my gift to myself on defending my phd dissertation and made mostly on a road trip from Ohio to Colorady by way of Chicago, Minnesota and the Dakotas. It got really loose after a point and I have no idea where it is now. But it was darned comfy.
The black hoodie was a traumatic project and continues to be. Made from a pattern in Hip to Knit (thanks to Spud) and Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride, it went very fast, but the pattern and I didn’t see eye to eye on many occasions. Also, getting the pockets to line up properly made me weep several times. To say nothing of trying to sew in the zipper, which, I have to say, ranks right up there will frogging lace in being a total bitch to do. All that was nothing, though, to the amount this yarn PILLS!!! It’s like a grizzly bear, a very angry, bristling one. It’s not even that soft, but it is warm and comfy.
The wallaby looks really comfy! It’s funny what we find on old cameras and film that have been laying around. Too bad with the new digital age that surprise won’t happen too much anymore…
Cute projects, I love the little hat! The off-center look of the photos is problem you can get with almost all cameras–film and digital. The reason is that what you see through the viewfinder is not representative of what the final photo’s framing will be. Usually viewfinders show only about 75% of what the final photo will show, plus it is off-center too. The only exception being high-end cameras that have 100% viewfinder coverage and the LCD screen on digital cameras are usually 100% coverage. That’s why using the LCD screen will give you the truest representation of the final photo. (Sorry for the photography digression!)
Lobstah, am really glad to know it the viewfinder, and not my inability to see through it!