Sarkle

Most of my finished objects right now are going to be knitted, but it's sweater weather, so I'm not even a little sorry.  I'm not sewing at all except for outside projects for the drama program at my kids' school and have had a good time thrifting on ThredUp.  (It's fine, really.  I've got plenty to keep my hands busy).

To be perfectly honest, I feel better about thrifting anyway, as it takes something out of a landfill and puts it to use, whereas sewing has a similar footprint to buying new.  (It doesn't help that my go-to fabric store went out of business in the spring; I have other places I like, but nothing like fabric.com--RIP). 

Obviously, I do occasionally buy something new, but I find thrifting fun. And confession: I find I have different seasons with some styles or particular pieces, especially with major body changes (about which more, at a later date).  So thrifting works better for me on a lot of levels right now.

Anyway, I present my Sarkle, made in August mostly.  It was a totally straightforward KDD knit, and since I'm pretty confident about her blocks, I got gauge and just got on with it!  The twisted stitches were fun (more so than cables) and the pattern varied enough not to get boring.  

I'm working on the coordinating cowl to this pattern right now and am struggling with pattern boredom since the twisted stitch pattern isn't quite as varied as the sweater yoke.  (Which explains how I managed to make a whole other sweater from my unraveled Weekender in the past three weeks while the cowl has languished since late August).  I've also been poking away at a lace shawl and am just over half-way on it.

The color was a bit hard to photograph but it is a lovely deep teal that leans slightly toward green.  It's similar in shade to my Carbeth, but the DK weight is a lot more useful to me.  My next sweater project is another Teti Lutsak pattern.  I love how her stuff fits me and find her patterns visually interesting and fun to knit.

Nothing to say that I didn't note on my ravelry page.  I will say I still struggle with finding the right sweater length on my figure.  I'm short-waisted so I have to watch body length very carefully but my measurements are a lot straighter than they used to be, so I can get away with slightly longer sweaters now.  It feels like a Goldilocks dilemma and I wonder if this sweater could stand to be another 1/2" or so longer, but it is a bottom up sweater so there is no way I'm messing with it!  The leather skirt is a new thrift and it is *mwah*!  Put it with a recently thrifted black leather jacket and I feel extremely stompy.