A magic web with colours gay

Yesterday I finally finished my unseamly sweater, from the Happy Hooker crochet book. And finally, I am quiet pleased with it. All things considered, this is probably not a difficult pattern to make. The difficulty came in me attempting to alter things to my liking and so continually measuring myself against the pieces that I had and the pattern. Then I made several starts at most sections before I worked out how exactly the stitch was supposed to be done.

(I couldn't get a very good picture of me wearing it!)

You can see that I got a little carried away with this rare opportunity to make the sleeves longer and made these ones plenty long enough. Then, just when I thought I was finished, I realised I had three different edgings to do.

I am not so sure about the loopy edging around the bottom, and whether or not I am just going to snag myself on everything I walk by, but because it was joined on at the end if I get totally fed up with it and hooked on too many passing hookable things I can just remove it.

I’ll also need to remember to reduce my dietary intake before I plan to wear this sweater, given the way it’s rather snug through the middle. In this day of hipster clothing I think we’ve all forgotten we have waists that used to be seen. And the downside of this nicely long and fitted jumper is that when I turn sideways, there is my gluteus maximus unduly maximised, highlighted as the munificent “curve” that it is.

Anyway, I have quite a bit of this nice claret wool left over and am contemplating a matching hat.

P.S. The title of this post is from The Lady of Shallot by Tennyson: "There she weaves by night and day/ A magic web with colours gay". Crochet is poetry.