I’ve got to milk this whole sweater thing for one more post, right? Sweaters dominated my 2009 knitting because of NaKniSweMoDo – not one stitch of a single sweater was knit outside of that year. Here it all is:

January: Central Park Hoodie
February: Broderie
March: Lily
April: Grannie Smith Cardigan
May: Peace
June: Brad’s Phildar [...]

Pattern: Lily by Marnie MacLean
Yarn: 4.5 skeins of Louet Riverstone in Eggplant
Modifications: Added a few short rows in the last couple of yoke rows to keep the throat about 4 rows lower than the rest of the yoke. Filled in the corners of the boat neck with a few more short rows for bra [...]

This was taken yesterday before a day spent doing nothing but knit:

In the meantime, I finished all of the yoke, tried it on, decided it was four rows too high at my throat, and needed a little bit more bra strap coverage, so with the magic of short rows, redid the last four rows to [...]

I’ve been plugging away on Lily:

I’ve finished the body to the underarms, now I’m working on sleeve 1:

Lani is working hard too:

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I’ve regained some ground on the sweater:

The rate of increase after the waist is much slower than the decreases for the waist, and I’m thinking I might need to adjust that a bit – I need to try this on and see where I am in length right now. It’s going well, though, and [...]

I did start Lily during my trip. I’ve been making some progress, but I think my starting bobble technique is a little lacking:
This is fairly accurate color, but hard to see:

Better detail, wrong color:

I like my bobbles higher up, when I did them with much attention to being lose. The first ones are [...]