Another study in "zen knitting"

It took me a few weeks to come to terms with this project and post it. I've been working on the Vogue Knitting "High Neck Lace Top" from their Holiday 2005 magazine. It was a great challenge...forced me to learn bobbles, proper seaming, and practice lace-making. Unfortunately, it did not lead to a garment that i liked.

On the positive side I made my own pattern for cap sleeves and I thought they turned out very well. However, the shirt was too short, or I just don't have much of a hip/waist ratio, because there were these funny looking "wings" on either bottom side. Also, it pulled too much across the chest. Either issue might have been forgivable alone but together it was too much. I frogged the whole thing. I've since been playing around with my own interpretation of Glampyre's Orangina pattern. Maybe I'll have something by summer.