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Seamless! Not just the jumper but what I thought to myself looking at the second image in Photoshop. Cue rimshot. In any case here’s a cute lil’ pattern that is indeed worked in one piece, though you’ll still have to set the sleeves in (unless you pick them up and knit them, which is totally feasible as they’re knit top-down). The band’s an interesting point- it’s knit ‘diagonally’, creating squares in miter style. If you’d prefer a tunic to a blouse-y look, simply omit the elastic band used to pull in the back.

Square Necked Jumper 1

Square Necked Jumper 2

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I wanted to save something this elegant (and time consuming) for after the holiday season. At first it seems counterintuitive; somewhere out there a knitter’s cursing me for not posting this 2 months earlier so she’d have the perfect 30′s screwball romantic comedy outfit for the office Christmas party. But on this first day of the new year, as we blearily rub our eyes and stumble over half-empty champagne glasses, what do we see before us? A dull stretch of winter before the cluster of February holidays hits us like bizzare, irritating PC bricks (I’m looking at you, combination Presidents’ Day & Ash Wednesday). So in that time so grey Lewis Black said, “you want to slit your wrists just to see some color”, why not work this dress up in a lovely jewel tone? If you’re not up for the full-length number (for sanity or budgetary reasons), it would look just as elegant as a longer tunic/dress going just above the knees or ending a few inches below the belt for a blouse.

Several commenters pointed out the tininess of the images in the column below- rest assured they’re actually quite large. Just right-click and save or drag-and-drop them to your desktop, and you’ll have the full-sized (and more legible) pattern.

HandicrafterSS34 10

HandicrafterSS34 11

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Kids, when you plan to publish something online on a semi-weekly basis, don’t depend on your neighbor’s internet connection. Sigh. In any event, here’s a lovely vintage jumper that would look fine knitted as-is, or could be lengthened for the ‘tunic and tights’ look so popular of late. What with guys’ pants ever-increasing in snugness and women giving up pretensions and wearing straight-up leggings as the bottom half of their wardrobe, I predict it will be a short step to the return of the codpiece and medieval-style tunics. Get a jump this holiday season and knit in some intarsia heraldry on a field vert!

Popular Knitting Book short sleeved jumper 1

Popular Knitting book short sleeved jumper 2

Somewhere a paper preservationist is weeping at my hacky Photoshop skills.

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Behold, my latest creation. Actually, not quite the latest- I began animating this about a year ago with a DV camera my dad accidentally dumped paint on while painting the guest room. He gave it to me, I managed to unstick the ‘on’ toggle, and for fooling around purposes it worked just fine.

I shot scenes whenever I had time, and it wasn’t until I finally got around to editing it that I realized the true importance of continuity. I tried color timing to fix the glaring lighting jumps but as I’m no expert it worked about as well as getting plastic surgery to fix your last round of plastic surgery. Eh. Onward and upward.

Also part of the ‘onward and upward’; getting a damn microphone. Recording your own foley’s the way to go, and do you know how annoying it is slogging through sound effects sites? Their ‘Babbling Brook- Gentle Stream’ sounds like a cat gargling marbles, and 90% of the time it’s in a low-res format. Aaaagh.

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For those of you paying attention, I am indeed post-dating these entries. I’ve only managed once to post on an actual Friday. Time is a surprisingly slippery thing and other projects keep grabbing my attention. However delayed, I shall follow through. Here’s a nice little project you could whip up last-minute for a holiday gift. Peep the shoddy Photoshop job on page 2.

The Popular Knitting Book

Slippers 1

Slippers 2

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