Well I didn’t post anything last week. The reason being is that I was busy writing out this new knitting pattern that I just finished! Yup it’s the Seed Edge Bolero and it’s super cute. Now I would have posted this a long time ago, but on my first attempt at designing this lovely little bolero I put the armholes in the wrong spot so I had to tear the whole thing apart and start almost from scratch.
One interesting thing is that it has top down knitted pleats. I looked all over the internet to find how to do top down knitted pleats and could not find any information. I also looked in many library books and my friends books on how to do this and could still not find any information. Finally through much trial and error I figured out how to do it on my own. I’m pretty pleased with my cleverness on this and included an illustrated tutorial with the pattern so anyone else making my pattern would know how to do this. Now one might ask why bother with knitting top down pleats, just knit in the other direction and the pleats become really easy. This wouldn’t have worked in my case as I wanted the bodice to be one piece with only two seams at the top of the shoulders. Top down pleats was the only way to accomplish my design with the simplistic seaming and I’m quite happy with the results.
Now it’s time for me to run ahead with my next knitting project. I’m making a cute wallet, and that pattern will be free when I finish it. I’ll probably have a new tutorial for you next week as well.