aka the behemoth, aka the money pit. i don't think anything's ever taken me longer to knit, but i do love it. it's a big, heavy garment, and making it in mulitple panels and seaming with a three-needle bindoff helps distribute the weight. did i mention that grace and lisa at
rosie's yarn cellar
basically invented this pattern as i went along? they could probably build a house blindfolded.
hard to get good photos of it. it expressed itself more as a lack in the photos of our halloween costumes, and you can't much see the sequins in the daytime, but daytime is the best time to get a picture of it.
when is the best time to wear it, other than halloween? i've already had a wonderful opportunity and taken it to its fullest. with what we thought was great kindness and sacrifice, last friday night we took my dad and loretta to see michael feinstein and jane monheit at the kimmel. (early christmas gift). i am a complete convert now to michael feinstein, after years of only hearing him blaring out of my father's home as we drove up in our car.
it was a fabulous, amazing show and MORE people should have been wearing long, swingy, handknitted, sequined, mandarin jackets -- but believe me, those of us who were felt they were on stage with feinstein himself (and felt better dressed than ms. monheit, who looked a little awkward and off-the-rack. then again it is my tendency to hold all chanteuses up against diana krall, who is a goddess, and who by comparison makes jane monheit look like miss piggy.)
so, here is my sweater -- not against the backdrop of macerated brazilian rainforest that is our lovely kimmel center, but against the field across the street from our house, where flannery was running this morning. (there's no better feeling than when someone in the park approaches your ten and a half year-old dog and asks, "is she a puppy?")