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Mermaid Body Done I cannot believe it, but the body of my mermaid is complete! I'm beyond pleased with how it has turned out. The hairclips held it together well enough to try it on for fit and so far it looks good. Now all that is left is putting the shoulder seams and collar together. I then plan on doing an i-cord bindoff all the way around so I don't have the grafting behind the neck on the collar. At least it worked on a swatch and I have a circular needle long enough so what the heck I may as well give it a shot!
I hope to start the sleeves by the end of the week after I put the body together- just need to write out the darn pattern so I can understand it. I can't wait to compare Amy!'s sheet to mine and see how close- or far off I am to the pattern's actual directions. So far it fits so I'm pleased- the sleeves worry me a bit as to the length of arm so that need some tweaking.
Posted by Cindi and Bill at 8/22/2007 01:18:00 PM 
it looks really great! congrats

8/22/2007 07:57:00 PM Linda@SquabbleHollow said...

just saw the picture of your Mermaid , love the color and nice job.

8/22/2007 08:38:00 PM 
I love that color...mine is the green /blue but it was a gift and I have yet to get past cast on. I will though I am wrapping up many FO's...
Terrific job

8/24/2007 07:27:00 AM 
I finished this one and it looks great except the sleeves turned out way too long. When knitting them, they looked fine but after the washing - even though I was careful not to stretch them - they are about 6 inches too long! I don't know what to do to fix it except try to undo them and start over. Not sure if I can find the ends to take them out.

9/19/2007 06:59:00 AM