Summer twist
Finished
June 7, 2020
June 28, 2020

Summer twist

Project info
211-13 Seaside Spirals by DROPS design
Knitting
TopsSleeveless Top
me
M (88cm bust)
Needles & yarn
US 7 - 4.5 mm
US 9 - 5.5 mm
16 stitches and 20 rows = 4 inches
in stocking stitch with larger needles
Garnstudio DROPS Paris
156 yards in stash
4.7 skeins = 385.5 yards (352.5 meters), 235 grams
Fiordilana
May 7, 2020
Notes

Body:
Worked the two separate parts on the same circular needle and then joined them in the round following instruction.

Underarm
For the right front piece and the left front piece I casted on the 5 sts as instruction asked.
In order to avoid seaming front the back pieces, I decided to pick up the 5 stitches for the back pieces, instead of casting 5 new ones on.

Don’t like very much the details underarm where you work the last stitch of A.4 or A.5 with 2 sts of the underarm on hold. They look bulky.

Straps
I mistakenly inverted A6 and A7 but on the second strap I worked A6 so they are still symmetrical and the result is nice anyway.

27-06-2020

Back top finishing:
After some days of pondering on the upper body ribbing in the back, I decided I really don’t like it so I unraveled it.
I have worked A4 and A5 at the extremities while in the middle part I purled a couple of rows and then I binded off the whole back.
I prolonged the straps to join the back part and saw them directly onto it

it’s not perfection but I like it more that the original solution. The purled rows curl a little inside, like the underarm and the V neck edges.

Note about the size:
I have a 89 cm bust and I opted for virtually no ease at all but next time I would go for a negative ease.
I don’t like that Drops never address the “ease” of the project on the model and just lets you guess.

Note about the yarn:
Paris is soft and makes for a quick project but after washing it in the washing machine as written on the instruction there was some pilling going on. I didn’t even know it was possible with cotton.

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Finished
June 7, 2020
June 28, 2020
 
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by Garnstudio
Aran
100% Cotton
82 yards / 50 grams

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  • Originally queued: June 2, 2020
  • Project created: June 10, 2020
  • Finished: June 28, 2020
  • Updated: July 9, 2020
  • Progress updates: 7 updates