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August 14, 2007

From Sally — A Mermaid Resurfaces

Filed under: Sally's Mermaid — surly @ 5:01 pm

We really do need to stop the bad puns.

I just came back from a jaunt to North Carolina where it was a bazillion degrees. Instead of bringing Silver Belle with me, I brought my half-finished Mermaid sleeve. I knew I wouldn’t have a lot of time to knit and I wouldn’t want to haul a large piece of knitting around with me anyway. So I finished the sleeve. One more to go unless I decide to be really trendy.

Here is the finished sleeve before seaming. One one side there are live stitches on one side and on the other a provisional cast-on.

In this photo, I’ve removed the provisional cast-on and placed the now live stitches on a second needle.

This is the beginning of working a three-needle bind off of the seam.

Here’s the wrong side (the inside of the sleeve) once the seam is completed.

The right side of the seam:

The sleeve with a view of the blue detail:

I couldn’t resist pulling the sleeve on. Eeek. It looked really short. I quickly and crudely basted it into the jacket; the sleeve fits perfectly into the armhole opening and the sleeve length is fine. Whew.

Scroll alert:

While I was in NC, I went to a couple of Clay Aiken concerts. I was playing around with black and white photographs. If you are interested, here is one.

I also played around with taking some bootleg concert video. The one that I really liked is of Lover All Alone, which he co-wrote with David Foster. I won’t embed it here, but if you’d like to see the video, click here.

11 Comments »

  1. I absolutely love Falkenberg’s designs! Mermaid looks great.

    Comment by Romi — August 14, 2007 @ 5:43 pm

  2. That’s the one! That’s the one mom!!! Sorry, I get that way with HF designs *blush* Yours is lovely ahhhh…

    Comment by Carol — August 14, 2007 @ 5:51 pm

  3. that table top is gorgeous! did you paint it?

    Comment by Laura — August 14, 2007 @ 7:27 pm

  4. impressive video and photo. You are an UTube and knitting expert!!

    Comment by katomliz — August 14, 2007 @ 9:13 pm

  5. From Susan — Cheesy puns are our hallmark, so I refuse to stop!

    Comment by lv2knit — August 14, 2007 @ 10:14 pm

  6. Wow, I just finished a shawl and returned to my Mermaid sleeves. I’m only half way through the first one but now I will stop stressing about them fitting into the armhole and just knit.

    Comment by Joan — August 14, 2007 @ 11:26 pm

  7. Laura: It’s a handpainted table but it was not painted by me, which is why it’s pretty.

    Comment by surly — August 15, 2007 @ 9:04 am

  8. Sally- Uh, that’s travel knitting? I’m impressed.

    You guys slay me with the puns- they’re great!

    Comment by Lorraine — August 15, 2007 @ 9:35 am

  9. Love the colors you chose for your Mermaid. I’ve finished knitting mine but have hit the wall at the blocking stage. When you blocked, did you calculate the dimensions that should have been on Falkenberg’s sketch and then block to those dimensions? Or did you “eyeball” the size?

    Comment by Barbara — September 22, 2007 @ 1:19 pm

  10. Oh, Sally! I haven’t seen that black and white photo before!

    It’s beautiful! And now, back to looking at knitting projects for which I have not an ounce of comprehension, but they sure are pretty!

    Comment by Joy — November 8, 2007 @ 5:09 pm

  11. Love the way you’ve ‘seamed’ the sleeves! I’ve had Mermaid sitting in a box for over a year. I’m intending to knit a small and wondering if you could say what size you knitted and how big it came out. I’ll fiddle with needle size until I’m working to gauge.

    Comment by Tessa — January 25, 2008 @ 2:12 pm

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