Tag: Cabled Sweater
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Unraveled Crop Top
I’m not sure if this is a top or a mixed media project, but it’s the closest I’ve gotten to a shirt I ruined at an ice cream festival in 2018. The original was a soft white tee, cropped at the waist, with tassels sewn to the bottom. Although I realized while I was working…
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A Tale of Two Sweaters
The week before Thanksgiving 2011, I grabbed the top of my mannequin and molded some cables around it. I pictured myself in a jaw-dropping neon orange sweater saying “this old thing? I made it myself.” Objectively, that isn’t a great reason to do anything. In my case, it set me up for disappointment. I was…
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Big Sweater Smaller Sweater
There’s a picture of my dad that used to sit on my mom’s bedside table – in the nebulous lore that is my dad’s past, I would place it somewhere around the time he took a break from college and lived in Colorado, getting by teaching other sometime-college-students to ski. In this picture, he’s leaning…
Knitting Problems 