Zooey is a 60% cotton, 40% linen blend with thicker and thinner parts. It is loosely twined and, because of that, very splitty. It is easy to miss one of the strands, resulting in a thin spot in the knitted fabric, or to mistake one stitch for two and accidentally increase a stitch. I’m speaking from experience. Both have happened to me and I’ve had to frog quite a bit to fix it.
After a while I got used to the yarn, and developed a knitting technique that prevented me from sticking the needle into stitches by pushing the strands together with my index finger. This is definitely not a yarn for mindless knitting. Having said that, it gives a very nice fabric – drapey with a lovely irregular structure.
Well, that’s the story about my Sideways Tee. If you’d like to make one too, I can recommend it. It’s a really enjoyable and interesting knit. Looking ahead to autumn, I think it will work very well in a cosy woolen yarn, too.
To end today’s blog post, in style with the focus on white, here’s a picture of our beautiful autumn-flowering Japanese anemones ‘Honorine Jobert’.
It looks beautiful on you! I can see why you were alarmed by the earlier photos, but what a good thing you persevered, as you have a lovely garment that you’ll get lots of wear from. Ideal for autumn too as it looks so nice layered. Lovely! ?
I thought of this Tee as something to put away until next summer, but I think you’re right and I can wear it during the coming months too. Thank you!
Prachtig geworden, die Sideways Tee!
Dank je; ik ben er zelf ook happy mee.