Mary wrote:
I haven't the capacity to send photos, but I think I need the group and the discipline to finish a project that's been glaring at me from a basket on the floor for far too long. It's the Kaffe Fassett coat from the cover of Vogue's "Men's" issue of a couple of years ago. I've knit it from 15 colors of left-over fingering yarn and it looks fabulous! The front, back and sleeves are finished and all it needs is the edges and collar, which I'm dragging my feet on because I'm not sure that I can perform his instructions properly. And I ran out of the MC so am substitution another for the collar, which I'm not sure will look good at all and I know the MC is gone forever. (It was a sale yarn, purchased three years ago in Tunbridge Wells.) So is this a sad enough tale to qualify? Mary
1/2/08
Mary wrote:
After a lot of congitating, I trashed the idea of trying to make the trim on the front of the coat and the collar the way Kaffe told me to. I pulled out the odious front strips (see pictures) that I was supposed to sew OVER (!) the half-rectangle of knitting (outrage!) and just picked up and garter-stitched trim on the lower part of the fronts to match the trim at the bottom of the coat. Then I picked up stitches around the V-neckline and garter-stitched a couple of inches and bound off. Satisfactory but not very artistic result. Now for all those ends!! Report to follow.
Mary
