Designer: Teva Durham
Pattern Source: Vogue On The Go: Chunky Knits
Yarn: Triple strands of Lion Brand Cotton-Ease in Sugarplum (3 balls total)
Needle Size: US 15
Gauge: 8 sts = 4"
Date Completed: July 2005
Recipient: me (of course)
Just when I thought the One Skein Wonder couldn't be beat ... I ran across this cap sleeved top by Teva Durham in the Chunky Knits book. After finishing up that cable cardigan in matching yarn, I had three balls left over ... but one of them was a different dye lot than the others. I really wanted to make some sort of a top to go under the cardigan, but I couldn't decide how to deal with the uneven dye lots (they showed).
Enter Teva Durham's little top, which took 200 yards of a single strand of super bulky yarn ... and I decided to combine all three yarns together to fix up that dye lot problem. It worked! I like this top a lot, and it really took one evening to finish (started before a movie, knit through the movie, and cast off while watching Johnny Deep on Jay Leno ... what a great knit). One minor caveat would be the extra short hemline ... all the better to show off my new belly button ring (and we'll just ignore that non-Pilates tummy). I literally had a few feet of yarn leftover, so I couldn't have made it any longer.
Does this pattern look familiar, by the way? You might want to glance at Kathy's non-chunky version(s) here, so graciously and grumpily called the Tivoli T-shirt. (Don't we just love Kathy for giving us that pattern?) Without the mismatching dyelots, this yarn was destined to become a Tivoli itself.
I've actually just washed and blocked the top, and I stretched it out super long and I'm hoping to add an inch or so. If that happens, I'm sure this will pattern will become a favorite.
