Dichroic Reflections

sweater girl

Look look look look! My very first sweater!

Guess what I'm wearing to work today?

Those pictures are pre-blocking. I blocked it after that, which didn't change it much. It was still damp this morning but I put it on anyway. I'm not good at waiting. Also, there are some advantages to living in a desert; it's very nearly dry now. Driving into work with the top (of my car!) down helped, too.

I should mention that it's this pattern. Mine is a little roomier because when I adjusted the pattern for yarn with a different gauge, I also added to it a bit. The original was for a 32" chest, which sounded improbably slim but might would have worked after all. I'm still a little scared of overdoing the "negative ease" and ending up with something so tight I can't get into it. Now on the needles: a tank top I'm adapting to knit in the round, in Rowan cotton braid. I've already ripped out once, reducing it from 86 to 60 stitches around because it was huge.