Dragonfly sweater

[celticdragonfly]

Knitty's winter surprise is up - I never am sure which things are new and which have been up, but I'm poking around their site.

And I think I'm in love

Here's the scary thing. THE PATTERN COMES IN MY SIZE. Honestly. At least what would have been my size before I was pregnant. I could wear that.

Okay, not while pregnant. And really, not while nursing. BUT STILL.

Obviously I wouldn't go for colorway 115. But colorway 107 is pretty tempting... 108 or 123 maybe, but 107 is the top contender that comes in all of those yarns, I think.

I don't know if it would be a good idea. It's shown on a skinny little model, after all - might look terrible on someone like me. And I shudder to imagine what all that yarn would cost.

BUT OMG DRAGONFLY SWEATER!!!

EDIT: Damn. Never happening. I worked it out from poking around online stores - that's about $280 worth of yarn. Plus shipping.

Comments

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

I think it'd be really flattering for a larger person, if you consider yourself such. I have a similar one I bought from a store and it looks good on me...it'd look still better if I had proportional boobs but I don't.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I am very much a larger person. Mind, I do have fairly proportional boobs. Have to wear the strapless with that, though. Or buy myself a Decent Exposures bra in a matching color and just not care that the straps showed.

Can't afford the yarn, though. Pity. Beautiful complex pattern.

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

Or buy myself a Decent Exposures bra in a matching color...

Hm. Hmmmmmm. What a brilliant idea! I can't really do strapless bras - don't have enough boobage to keep them from flipping up. But that could solve the problem quite nicely! When I start earning money, that'll be a good investment.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Whereas my problem is more boobage than any one person should have to deal with trying to support.

Oh well, it does match the hips...

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

You might be able to get some cheap yarn on e-bay, cheap but good quality. Or some of the other discount sites like Smileys or Elann. I've gotten whole lots of yarn (bags of ten balls, say, or more) on e-bay for really good deals sometimes.

Not that I'm passionately trying to talk you into making this or anything, but you might be able to do it if you wanted to badly enough.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

In general I'm all for substituting yarns, and know several sources of good inexpensive yarns.

Trouble is, this sweater was really designed around those specific yarns. Yarns, not yarn. It's designed for 4 different types of ArtYarns - two merino, one silk/mohair blend (that's the PRICEY one) and a ribbon yarn - that are all in matching colorways.

No way I'm going to be able to get that effect substituting less pricey yarns.

[castiron.livejournal.com]

Unless you got the cheaper yarns in white and dyed them. The merinos are easy to find to find; the silk/mohair blend would be more of a challenge, but you might be able to get something close enough with Kidsilk Haze, or the mohair/silk blend here: http://www.fiber2yarn.com/catalog.php?category=Undyed%204
And a white ribbon yarn might be suitably dyeable too.

[hopeevey.livejournal.com]

That is a niftykeen sweater :)