{"id":525,"date":"2014-08-03T14:03:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T14:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aliceinknittingland.wordpress.com\/?p=525"},"modified":"2014-08-03T14:03:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T14:03:59","slug":"the-google-tunic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"The Google Tunic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or maybe the Pinterest Dress.<\/p>\n

Call it what you will, it is essentially a sampler. A top-down, in-the-round, seamless yoke fair isle sampler. A project for me to learn about colourwork and fair isle.<\/p>\n

As is so often the case in my life<\/del> knitting, I didn’t really have a set idea about what I was making before I began. Much of what I do is intuitive, experimental and heart-in-mouth-will-it-fit? It is also a smaller gauge and therefore longer knit than I am used to. I like to use Aran or chunky because I get impatient and want to move onto the next thing, as evidenced by the fact that many of my previous posts showcase items I began after this tunic and finished well before it was complete.<\/p>\n

This dress began with the optimistic working title “Spring Tunic”. We’re now well on the way through summer. See? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

It began as it usually does: with a clearance section on a wool website. I trawl them too often, looking for the bargains. I have one stipulation: natural fibres. And I usually stick to it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I found Sublime baby cotton kapok dk. I don’t usually knit with cotton. But I was working on the premise that knitting (and crochet) being something I love, I don’t want to only do it in the autumn and winter, and there must be pretty knitwear for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n

Rather than babbling on about it any more, here is the sampler tunic, finished with crochet around the hem and sleeves: a progression in pictures:<\/p>\n

\"pinterest-tunic7\"<\/a>
An example of one of the charts I googled<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"pinterest-tunic3\"<\/a>\"pinterest-tunic5\"<\/a>\"pinterest-tunic9\"<\/a>\"pinterest-tunic10\"<\/a>\"pinterest-tunic-11\"<\/a>\"pinterest-tunic12\"<\/a>\"pinterest-tunic-2-square\"<\/a>\"pinterest-tunic4\"<\/a>\"Pinterest-Tunic\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now… Back to the million-and-one other UFOs on my list..!<\/p>\n

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