Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 08:41:32 -0700 From: patrick.boudreau@ns.sympatico.ca Subject: [BOND] Thought for a Design! I was thumbing through some of my craft magazines and saw a designer sweater that I know opens up a multitude of possibilies to the ISM/Bond and the creativity on the list. I was done in plain knit, it was a drop sleeved sweater that they had taken to below the knee length, so there should be no shaping just straight knitting, which leaves the back wide open for design, which I personaly would keep to the bottom rather than the top....try a band about 6 inches deep of fairisle or miniature intarsia, then work the picot hem. The front is done in the same manner, with very little shaping except at the neckline which is the basic round neck....there is no design on the upper part....there is in the pattern that I saw....but I would take the design and place it at the bottom as before. The sleeves were knit from the shoulders down with the cuff perhaps holding the same design. Now, here comes the fun....I used to design the Newfoundland coats, they were sewn with pure wool fabric and lined with water proof Canadian Mist fabric and trimmed in rabbit fur.. Using the above pattern as a guideline, make the whole garment in a solid colour, personally grey tweed light is very functional. Eliminate the picot hem and add extra for just turn under, so I would work one row of purl stitches before knitting the last 5 - 10 rows for turning under. Now the hand work, work a row of evenly spaced blanket stitch around the bottom up front and on sleeve edges. The top has a hood attached so you would work the same around that. Go back in with a white and work another round of blanket stitches between the first ones except make them half the size. You will be using wooden toggle buttons on the front or a long zipper so no allowance for bands is made. Now knit a square that is a large pocket size, once you have the square start decreasing on one side until you have approximately 10 1- 12 stitches left. Remove from the machine, and line, then work the buttonhole stitches around this, also you can work a small intarsia design on the pocket, Iused the eskimo and igloo and it was nice, done in only black and white. I lined the jackets in grey and you could do the same for the knit version. I plan on making a few versions of this one this fall, when I get in full production again. Have a great day bonding, Linda patrick.boudreau@ns.sympatico.ca Linda Boudreau
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