Some time ago, I was inspired to start Berta's Interlocking Rings top from the Interweave crochet issue, after she dictated the pattern to me and had me send it to the magazine while I was working for her. The top is very cute, but the knitted part was very boring - rounds and rounds of stockinette. So I got about 3/4 done with it then moved onto other projects. On a whim, I picked it up again yesterday and finished the knitted parts and began the rings - see:
The chain of rings goes all the way around the yoke, then there is a picot edge crocheted around the top of the yoke, and on the edges of the sleeves and the bottom edge.
The rings are fun and not difficult to work, but it's easy to forget to join them to the previous one (which you do when you've made the base chain of each ring, by inserting it into the previous ring before joining it in a round). And I even joined one to the wrong ring, and finished the whole ring before noticing!
Ah well...
I just got a copy of Interweave Crochet and I was puzzling over those rings. So loopy and retro--they're great. I'm dying to learn crochet.
Posted by: Ann Shayne | September 18, 2004 at 09:02 PM
happy birthday, alison!
Posted by: athena | September 19, 2004 at 09:43 AM
Yep! Belated birthday wishes. Glad we got to see you the day before.
Posted by: Noah | September 20, 2004 at 09:13 AM
i feel like such a shit! i forgot.. but i didn't .. i still dont' have a working palm and can't even remember when i last went to the loo.. i knew it was close to kori's and checked my calendar and kept saying to myself remember to call Alison.. i even wrote a note to the others in the knitters with attitude and then completely forgot again!! what kind of a stinky friend am i!? Please forgive me and I hope you have a wonderful YEAR!!!
ps i didn't realize you were moving back up north? when did you decide that and is the church sending you there? karola
Posted by: Karola | September 20, 2004 at 10:44 AM