Quick notes for a very small project that should not have taken me the many months it did to finish.
Pattern Bikini top.
Source Rebecca #33.
Yarn Nashua Creative focus Cotton, 2½ skeins.
Needles US 5 (3.75 mm) and US 6 (4 mm).
Start-to-end 11 Feb 2007 - 2 Aug 2007.
Modifications Instead of using one or the other needle size to knit everything, I used the larger needles to knit the straps and bands and the smaller needles to knit the cup sections. I also added two extra increase rows to the cups. (I just really wanted to make sure the cups were concealing.)
I started this way back in February but didn't seam the parts together until recently, on my way to Vegas. Really, it was a two-day project.
I really like the simplicity of the project. The twisted ribbing detail is perfect for a concealing and elastic garment. And, of course, I love the leafy-lace details at the top of the cups. (Yes, this is another of my many leaf knits.)
This project stayed on the shelf for so many months because I had seamed it together badly at first and just did not want to redo it. But then, when I pulled it out again (during my knitting slumber party with Erica), I decided that I wanted the bottom band to be longer. So, that was my not-so-very-glamorous knitting task as we watched She's on Duty. (Erica knitted a dishcloth to keep at her workplace.) And, the next day, I seamed everything together as I waited to board my flight to Vegas.
Adam just laughed cause he thought this picture was somewhat risque and quite unlike me... I don't know. I have a hard time agreeing—It's a bikini top, after all. But just so you know, I don't plan on knitting (or posting pictures of wearing) any other under-garment-type clothes after this.
