new sweater!

[dichroic]

I always know it’s going to be a good day at work when I get to wear something I’ve made for the first time. No matter what happens at work, I have proof of my competence, right there on my back – “Well, you may have worked at this company for twenty years and know everything about it, but I made some of my clothes!”

I feel particularly clever in this case, because I wanted this sweater to be slightly loose and long and now, after blocking, it is. (Before blocking it fit well but clung more closely.) This one is pretty perfect, though. The pattern is called Organic:

(I really need to set up a better way to take full-body selfies.)

I’ve had the opposite happen a few times, where something fit well and then sort of wilted and went limp. The best example is my Banff – it’s supposed to be oversized, but not quite that oversized:

Mirrored from Dichroic Reflections.

Comments

[hobbitbabe]

That's lovely!

I know what you mean about how wearing something that you made makes you feel at work. I have one cardigan that makes me feel glamourous and competent, and I wear it when I'm not quite being blazer-formal but still want to look professionally put together. Also, the semester when I was appealing my denial of tenure, I wore a new pair of socks (each one from a different pattern) for the start of each week of classes. It helped. It helped a lot.