I'm not sure what part of my personality drives me when it comes to projects. I frantically finished up Katie's tank top so that I could start on Sizzle, and then immediately focused on Tank Girl instead.
Particulars:
Pattern: Tank Girl, from Stitch 'n Bitch
Yarn: TLC Cotton Plus, about 2 (and a bit) balls
Needle Size: 5.5mm
Started: June 27, 2006
Finished: July 16, 2006
Photo credit: Miss Katie took this for me, and very pleased she was to be using the camera, including the zoom.
I quite like this pattern, I feel very strong and broad shouldered in it. That may not be good for everyone, but it is good for me, as I have fairly wide hips. A bit of balance is always nice. I finished up on Sunday, including weaving in ends and blocking. I can see a *glaring* mistake, where I forgot to cast off 6 stitches on each end before decreasing for the armholes on one side, but it feels fine regardless. The non-knitters in my family couldn't tell, but I'm sure you could. It's satisfying, anyway, to have it done, and I've made some progress on Sizzle since.
On a completely unrelated note: When I am writing a post, and use the spell checker Blogger provides, can you guess what alternative for knitter comes up? Janitor! What's that about?
Beautiful colour and beautiful tank! I love those tanks, but cannot wear them! Enjoy yours!
Posted by: Peg | July 19, 2006 at 11:31 AM
Looks fantastic! You are SO fast. I love the colour and it fits you beautifully. Hooray!
Posted by: jen | July 19, 2006 at 12:46 PM
Looks great, fits you perfectly! Don't you love it when that happens?
Posted by: Ruth | July 19, 2006 at 01:09 PM
It looks great on you! I'll have to check out this pattern, my hips can use something to balance them too ;-)
Posted by: Saartje | July 19, 2006 at 01:43 PM
LOL. Janitor huh?.Love the tank. It looks great and I can't see a mistake.
Posted by: Dorothy | July 19, 2006 at 02:00 PM
That tank was my first knitting project. Yours looks much better as I've given mine away since! Great colour.
Posted by: Miss Twiss | July 19, 2006 at 03:28 PM
Your tank looks fabulous, great colour!
Posted by: Brenda | July 19, 2006 at 05:23 PM
looks great on you and fits well. Glad to see a tank that doesn't immediately slide off broad shoulders!
Posted by: Mari | July 19, 2006 at 08:09 PM
That looks good on you and the colour is fantastic.I don't follow where they get janitor from either.
Posted by: Rain | July 20, 2006 at 02:43 AM
It looks fabulous on you Charity!
Posted by: Lisa | July 22, 2006 at 12:18 AM
I LOVE the tank!!!! I have both SNB books, but lent them to a friend months ago and just haven't seen her to get them back :( Good job on the tank!!
Posted by: Whitney | July 22, 2006 at 09:32 AM
Oh I am so going to make this one day with my two balls of Cotton Plus in red. Then again, I have Cotton Plus in so many other colors too but I love this red on you! It's such a great fit.
Posted by: KnitPastis | July 22, 2006 at 05:15 PM