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FO Friday - The Dress

I finally got photos of my Ancasta Dress. It's three weeks since I finished it, and I've been procrastinating the photos. It took me a full week after I blocked it to even try it on. There are a few reasons:

1) The weather finally started to warm up, and this is quite a warm dress

2) When I queued it, I imagined wearing it to work. I'm getting the feeling I won't be back in the office this year, at the earliest it will be on the first day of summer. 

3) While there are many ways around this, there are (technically) only four reasons to leave the house, and since taking photos of a dress is not exercise, caring, work or shopping it meant choosing our location carefully. But I am forever happy that I have access to my balcony for this second lockdown, so taking photos out there made sense.

The dress itself was a joy to knit. The cables where intuitive, it grew steadily and I love the way the (now discontinued) Buachaille yarn knits up. It is a tiny bit rough against the skin, but I always wear shirts under my knits (so I don't have to wash them often) so that is not a problem. 

I knit it pretty much as the pattern was written. There is a slight variation in how the side cables emerge because I didn't understand the instructions, and I knit the exact number of repeats stated. Mine's shorter - which I was planning for anyway. If I had knit it to the pattern length it would have been very long on me.

Oh and I extended the sleeves to full length, because I have a shortsleeved dress, and a 3/4 sleeve dress, so I thought it was time for a full sleeved dress.

All in all, a very fun and satisfactory project.


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