…asa.
ok, part of the answer is ‘asa‘.
i got wallace and gromit for Christmas a few years ago.
that same year,
i used spud & chloe’s outer
to knit up a boy sized sweater.
what fun it was
watching the time it takes
(or how little time it takes)
to turn super bulky stitches
into a child’s pullover.
then when
brandy and allegra
of petite purls asked
if i would redo the sweater for a grown man, i dove in.
i was sure my man wouldn’t go for buttons and super bulky yarn,
time to rewrite a bit.
adding a zipper and downsizing
made ‘asa upsized’ a sweater
that real men i know
would actually wear.
and wear a lot.
the zippers
at local shops were too delicate.
i wanted a masculine zipper.
eventually i found one,
found a lot of them,
on second hand clothes
at a local thrift store.
there were almost too many choices there.
torn men’s woolens
and stained fleeces abounded.
bought one and washed it,
used my handy dandy seam ripper
to remove the zipper,
wet it down,
weighted one end with clothes pin,
hung to dry overnight
hoping to flatten it out.
by morning it was good as new.
(yesterday’s pic is my camera
looking up at the zipper drying on the wall, see it now?)
problem solved and ‘asa upsized’ ready to mail off for it’s photo shoot.
somedays designing is 1% knitting and 99% faking it.
whatever works, right?
smile.