snow white v.2
Last night, after much ripping and re-knitting (with which the yarn coped with very impressively) I finished the second version of Snow White. I haven’t taken it off long enough to block it yet, but my mum was round this morning so I roped her into taking pictures.
It?s definitely my new favourite jumper, although it?s so cold here that I?m wearing it over a cashmere poloneck. This looks surprisingly good, but I?m still cold!
I haven?t shared a picture of the back of the first version, but I made it like a raglan without the front section. This didn?t quite work out, but I knew I didn?t want to have the sleeves going straight across the back either. The solution is a combination of both ideas, a sort of combo raglan and ?saddle? shaping.
I love how perfectly this fits at both the front and back. The stitches are grafted together at the center back. I knew I wanted to do this, but had to overcome the problem of not being able to graft the 2×2 rib neatly. The back detail was a practical way of overcoming the problem. Luckily I love how it looks and it also improves the fit.
I’m working on the pattern for this at the moment, and will probably be looking for test knitters soon, let me know if you’re interested.
Here’s the cabled beret I knit a few weeks ago.
Today I also added these pretties to my etsy shop. I know many of you are knitters and could easily make your own (see my patterns page) but thought you might like to see how the pattern looks in different yarns / colours.
Posted: December 29th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 59
Comments
Comment from kerri
Time: December 29, 2006, 7:48 pm
Love the new Snow White! the neckline is so flattering
Comment from Liz
Time: December 29, 2006, 7:49 pm
I would definitely be up for test knitting this - it’s stunning!
Comment from nush
Time: December 29, 2006, 7:59 pm
You look gorgeous - I also love your necklace, and hair.
Best of luck with the Etsy, etc, too.
xn
Comment from Sarah Schoonover
Time: December 29, 2006, 8:49 pm
Those are lovely! I would LOVE to test knit Snow White for you. Absolutely beautiful.
Comment from natalie
Time: December 29, 2006, 8:51 pm
Snow White is beautiful - the neckline is really nice and I like the back a lot, too. It’s a great design.
Comment from lori
Time: December 29, 2006, 9:51 pm
my comment seems to have disappeared. oops.
I saw this on Craftster and had to come over and comment here. I love this design! The details are really great and the color looks so good on you.
If you need more volunteers, I would love to test knit for you.
Comment from Tacki
Time: December 29, 2006, 10:36 pm
The back of Snow White is very interesting! I also like the beret a lot. It looks very gracefully, including the person who wears it. :)
Comment from LEO
Time: December 29, 2006, 10:55 pm
WOW - snow white looks so graceful and pretty! I love what you did with the back, also. I would love a chance to test knit that!
Comment from chris
Time: December 29, 2006, 11:08 pm
I love the contrast between the jumper and the neckace - stunning!
I would also love the opportunity to test knit too! :)
Comment from marianne
Time: December 29, 2006, 11:34 pm
Your snowwhite is just gorgeous. Include me as a testknitter too, if you please. I promised to send you a x-mascard, but I was late but a little something will be sent your way first thing in the new year.!!
Comment from whitney
Time: December 29, 2006, 11:46 pm
Your snow white sweater looks so lovely! Such a flattering fit. I would definitely be interested in test-knitting it. Also, your hair looks really pretty put up like that!
Comment from jenna
Time: December 30, 2006, 1:32 am
The sweater is beautiful and I LOVE the cabled beret! I’d definitely purchase a pattern!
Comment from Lesa
Time: December 30, 2006, 3:03 am
What a lovely sweater! Thank you for the sweet card too, happy holidays.
Comment from Crystal
Time: December 30, 2006, 5:50 am
Both the sweater and the beret are lovely. I’d love to test knit, if you need someone else. I wear a 34″ most of the time. I also adore what you did with your hair!
Comment from rfx1982
Time: December 30, 2006, 6:01 am
I love your design. I can’t wait for the pattern to come out.
Comment from bee
Time: December 30, 2006, 6:10 am
Wow! This sweater looks really great on you. I love the neckline and it’s a totally flatterning knit. Great job.
Comment from cari
Time: December 30, 2006, 6:24 am
I’ll be the ten thousandth volunteer to test knit–the shaping is so innovative.
Comment from Julie
Time: December 30, 2006, 6:53 am
Snow White is indeed lovely. You did a marvelous job with the neckline and the shaping…so flattering on your figure too.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned your BEAUTIFUL (Hill Tribes?) silver necklace. Very nice touch.
Wish I had time to test knit Snow White…I would be available to test knit that lovely beret though…. Thanks for sharing your pictures!
Comment from P?iv
Time: December 30, 2006, 10:42 am
Snow White is great! So cleverly constructed. I like what you did with the sleeves on the back, and the neckline is beautiful.
I love your necklace too - it`s amazing!
Comment from sue k
Time: December 30, 2006, 11:27 am
What a stunning garment! I’d love to knit it, need a size 18, and would happily test knit for you, though you’re certainly not short of volunteers…. Please, pretty please, ask me?!
Comment from Alice
Time: December 30, 2006, 2:39 pm
Snow white is gorgeous! Your hair are so pretty!! You are very beautiful on this pictures! Well done for the Snow white pattern!
Comment from jenna nicole
Time: December 30, 2006, 5:21 pm
Hi! I’ve been a big fan of you for a while and I have to come out of the woodwork to comment on such lovely work. The shaping on snow white is so clever and it looks absolutely beautiful! And I’m itching to knit that lovely cabled beret! Well done!
Comment from emily
Time: December 30, 2006, 7:03 pm
you are a MARVEL…your work is just amazing. And you are so adorable :)
Comment from Natalie
Time: December 30, 2006, 9:20 pm
I have just finished my first capelet and I am ready to move on to a jumper for myself (as opposed to the baby sweaters I have completed to date). Please let me know if I can test-knit this for you.
It is beautiful and SO flattering to the figure. I could definitely use something like that!
Comment from hpny knits
Time: December 30, 2006, 11:25 pm
fantastic sweater! excellent fit!
Comment from Gina
Time: December 31, 2006, 3:18 am
Absolutely gorgeous! I would be game to test knit.
Comment from margo
Time: December 31, 2006, 9:42 am
LOVE Snow White — I would beg to test knit!
Comment from Joan
Time: December 31, 2006, 4:35 pm
I adore the cabled beret and Snow White. You are obviously extremely talented. I would love to do some test knitting–definately email me if you need me!
Comment from craftydramaqueen
Time: December 31, 2006, 6:05 pm
What can I say? The jumper is a work of art! The beret is sooo cute and the shrug looks fab in the different colourways. Well done! Best wishes for 2007.
Comment from caroline
Time: December 31, 2006, 6:32 pm
Happy New Year, Chica! lovely sweater…and your belated christmas card is on it’s way to you…
Comment from Anne
Time: December 31, 2006, 6:39 pm
Oh every thing you knit is so pretty! I while wating (for the new opera gloves) have knitted your stuffies and gave them out as gifts. I am still looking for my first jumper project and am still torn between Arisaig, Matilda Jane, and now Snow White. I think that I might be about the same size as you and I would be exited to test knit Snow White.
Comment from weeza
Time: December 31, 2006, 10:54 pm
That jumper is fabulous, I’m sure you have enough people volunteering already but I would love to test knit it. I’ve been looking for ages for a sexy fitted sweater that isn’t too madly girly. I can kitchener a sock toe, I imagine it will be more of a challenge to do something that will be in plain view! Please can I put in an appeal for an xxs on your size range! :)
Comment from Distant Knitter
Time: January 1, 2007, 11:25 am
The sweater looks lovely, and I also volunteer to test-knit it. Or would like the pattern, anyway! The neckline is just clever!
Comment from Susannah
Time: January 2, 2007, 10:13 am
The new Snow White is just gorgeous. So flattering and looks fabulous on you. I just love it paired with the beret. I think you have enough offers for test knitters so I’ll keep an eye out for the pattern :)
Comment from pav
Time: January 2, 2007, 9:09 pm
I love that necklace - it’s gorgeous. I also love that beautiful jumper which looks very cosy - and love the edging around the neck - though I agree it has been freezing. Our family went to Paris just after Christmas and I was walking around in a couple of cotton shirts, a cashmere jumper, a wool/aran cardigan, a velvety/cotton jacket and a gilet and still cold! Sometimes I am grateful to the continental drift we get in the southern half of England!
Comment from Leah
Time: January 2, 2007, 9:48 pm
Gosh, it’s really stunning! I love the back. I mean, wow….
Comment from donnac1968
Time: January 3, 2007, 3:24 pm
Gorgeous, another volunteer here!!
Comment from Helen Chisholm
Time: January 3, 2007, 4:34 pm
Congratulations, this is altogether just a wonderfull look, jumper, hair, necklace, you all stunning. I would be happy to test knit anything anytime. well done.
I have knitted Areil twice (well almost) this Holiday, one for me in the largest size then a longer one for my daughter who is 5′9″ Thanks for all the fun and inspiration.
Comment from Pigwotknits
Time: January 3, 2007, 6:27 pm
Ooh, Snow White is pretty. I like the picot edge.
Comment from Steph
Time: January 3, 2007, 8:54 pm
This is such a wonderful post, I love your sweater, and the styling with your hair and the necklace are gorgeous. Lovely beret too!
Comment from Crystal
Time: January 3, 2007, 9:40 pm
Can’t believe I forgot to ask about the necklace! It’s gorgeous… did you make it? Purchase it?
Comment from Mama Urchin
Time: January 3, 2007, 10:10 pm
Oh my goodness, this is really lovely. I found you via Inside a Black Apple. Looking forward to reading and seeing more.
Comment from clarabelle
Time: January 3, 2007, 10:56 pm
hi Ysolda
What talent you have! I’m 51 and have been knitting on and off since I was 6 (at primary school we all, boys included, had to knit a square for a blanket) but it also helped because my mum was (and still is) a knitter.
But….. I’ve always been a bit of a formulaic, boring, knitter (ie as long as I’ve got an exact pattern, then I’m safe). Only over the past couple of years I’ve broken out of this and done all sorts of ad lib knitting. But certainly not on the scale and intricacy which you’ve managed, you clever person….
Ysolda, you have real talent. You’ve inherited some special skills from your grandad and I think you have far to go (if the major handknitting companies don’t snap you up pronto, then they’re bonkers). I love your matilda jane (which I’ve downloaded today) and also your arisaig (featured on the knitty.com site - which is where I found your website!).
I want to knit both designs up asap for ME! Being a middle-aged knitter doesn’t mean that I want to wear either the shapeless granny designs or the multi-coloured old hippy type things which seem to be par for the course in the ‘regular’ design world……
Will also wait with bated breath for snow white (and of course, the design is so perfectly based on the Disney character….)
Yours in admiration
clarabelle
Comment from Shannon
Time: January 3, 2007, 11:07 pm
I love that sweater so much I could weep! can’t wait for the pattern! And the capelet/bolero is just adorable–I’ll have to lose weight first, but then I’m gonna make one! happy new year.
Comment from nicole
Time: January 4, 2007, 1:15 am
cute and sexy. Nice work.
Comment from lowercasecarmen
Time: January 4, 2007, 5:05 am
HOW DID YOU DO YOUR HAIR!? It’s so gorgeous. Seriously, instructions!
Comment from Viv
Time: January 4, 2007, 5:17 pm
Gorgeous! I would love to testknit if you need anyone.
Do you have a pattern for that gorgeous cabled hat too?
Comment from Barbara
Time: January 4, 2007, 10:40 pm
Gorgeous! I guess the rib would make it perfect for someone with a larger chest? I would be interested in test knitting if you need anyone :)
(itslikearuin.blogspot.com)
Comment from katie
Time: January 4, 2007, 11:20 pm
BEAUTIFUL design as usual. YES!!!! Please instruct on your hairstyle. SAVE ME FROM THE BORING PONYTAIL!!
Comment from Nina
Time: January 7, 2007, 1:29 am
Your hair looks awesome! I’d love to know how to do it.
Can’t wait for the patterns :) Snow white looks cute and I love the cable beret :D
Comment from Martin L
Time: January 7, 2007, 9:52 am
Hi! I just stumbled upon your website and I fell instantly in love with Snow White. I’m certainly up for test knitting!
Comment from Amy
Time: January 8, 2007, 11:39 pm
OH MY GOODNESS!! You look Beautiful!! Congrats on the beauty of you and the dress. I’m wondering, any chance, of getting a tutorial on how you did your hair like that? So sweet.
xoxox,
Amy
Comment from nex0s
Time: January 10, 2007, 2:06 am
Please put me on the “test knitters list” for Snow White. If you come up with a size that works for me, I’d love to.
N.
Comment from Ariel
Time: January 10, 2007, 6:16 am
I’ll put my name in for test-knitting the sweater as well. :)
Comment from Ragga Lizard
Time: January 10, 2007, 6:24 am
i’ve never seen someone make ribbing so elegant. and it’s a beautiful color on you, luv. cheers!
Comment from lily michaud
Time: January 21, 2007, 2:28 am
would LOVE to test knit. look freaking awesome. por favor let me test knit!!!
Comment from Hilda
Time: February 15, 2007, 11:50 pm
Your snow white is lovely. I would love to test knit it. Please feel free to contact me about doing so.
~Hilda
Comment from Frigga
Time: February 22, 2007, 10:15 pm
If you want a curvy test-knitter to see how Snow White works on different body types, then I’m your gal!
Comment from niki
Time: July 11, 2007, 2:23 am
i love your work. it is wonderful.
did you create the beret yourself?
i would love to make one!
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