It’s finished! I wore it on Christmas to a brunch and received a lot of compliments. This is a very flattering sweater and it fits me perfectly. I love success stories because they’re not all success stories. Here are some photos.
First, I wanted to show how I decided on the button placement. Because my sister was visiting me when it was just about finished, I put it on and she basted a line to show how the fronts should overlap to get the fit I wanted. She also marked with a thread where I DIDN’T want a button — right at the nipple.
Here is another photo showing the button placement in progress.
And, finally, the finished project:
Now that I’ve actually finished something, I’m still inching along on my Feather and Fan shawl. But I have also gone back to another “head start” project. It’s a Bohus sweater from the book Poems of Color. It’s knit from the neck down with no seams. The beauty of this kind of knitting is that you can keep trying it on as you go to see if the body and sleeves are the right length. There is also very minimal finishing. I loved trying it on when I only had the yoke finished — it looked like a Pharaoh’s necklace.
I started this a long time ago and then set it down when I was lured away by God knows what. But I’ve wanted to come back to it for a long time. It’s the “Blue Shimmer.” One reason I set it down is that the cream yarn I was using for the body and the sleeves was fairly uneven in its spinning and in its color. I wasn’t sure if I should unravel back to the yoke and substitute a more consistent yarn. I’ve decided not to — I’ll live with the imperfections in the yarn and hope that by doing so I don’t let the sweater cross from looking handmade to home made — a fine line. Here is a photo of where I am. As you can see, I really do have a good head start with this one.
Your Sunrise Circle is truly quite lovely! So are the colors of your Pharoah’s necklace, um, your Bohus :o)
Comment by Karen B. — December 27, 2006 @ 12:13 pm
From Susan — you did a really nice finishing job on Sunrise. Last time I saw it, it was still on the needles. Love your Bohus and can’t wait to do another. My Wild Apples is one of the nicest fitting sweaters I ever made.  I added a picture (albeit, a crummy picture) of Wild Apples under Susan’s Gallery.
Comment by lv2knit — December 27, 2006 @ 1:10 pm
Oh the Blue Shimmer..I’m drooling!
Comment by Jen — December 27, 2006 @ 1:40 pm
Beautiful sweater, love those buttons.
Comment by Lisa S. — December 27, 2006 @ 1:48 pm
Both lovely! No wonder you wanted to get back to that Blue Shimmer! Sorry about the drool…
Comment by Carol — December 27, 2006 @ 3:28 pm
Your sunrise is beautiful — love the color and the buttons. And the blue shimmer is a lovely thing too — are the yarns from a kit, or did you choose your own?
Comment by Pam — December 27, 2006 @ 4:47 pm
Beautiful sweater, Sally. Thanks for sharing your button placement method — Nice not to have a button then up right there !
Comment by Wendy O — December 27, 2006 @ 6:54 pm
Two — well, really, about 1-1/2, but who’s counting? — absolutely gorgeous sweaters! I have loved every Sunrise Circle I have seen, but I wonder how it would look on someone of my, um, er, ample dimensions. Any insights to offer?
Comment by kmkat — December 27, 2006 @ 8:27 pm
absolutey lovely! both works of art!
Comment by Michelle — December 27, 2006 @ 9:21 pm