I apologize for the sporadic, distracted nature of my blog posts lately. I have a storm of stressful dramas unfolding in my work and family life at the moment, and I'm not yet allowed to talk about any of it on the internet. Some of it's good but stressful, some bad and stressful; most of it makes me ambivalent; but one thing's for sure: it's all combining to sap my energy and reduce me to a puddle of nerves. I've been coping by going jogging, making sure I get my daily dose of reading, and, most importantly, knitting while watching extremely silly movies. Like, Gidget-level silliness. The Addams Family. Miss Marple.
There's some great knitwear in the Miss Marple movies (in a different way than Morticia Addams's many-limbed baby garment could be termed "great knitwear"). Lots of lovely fairisle pullovers and vests make their appearances in between the village gossip and stuttered professions of innocence. These are horrid photos; I just snapped a few stills as note-taking for future 1940's-inspired designs. Which leads me to a bit of a design mystery:
Again, crummy photo. The character is a gardener by profession, and she stands behind that bush throughout the entire scene. But! Look at the neckline on her sweater - it's a v-neck, yet there's a band of stranded colorwork that follows the line of the neck, echoing the V shape. I'm curious as to how this was accomplished, since a regular steeked construction would have the knitter still working perpendicular to the v neckline as she formed the upper body of the sweater. (I think this sweater probably WAS steeked because of the classic drop-sleeve construction and the other band of colorwork under the bust.) The only thing I can come up with is that a person would knit the sweater body with a very wide and low v-neck, then cut the steeks and pick up stitches around the circumference of the v neck. The knitter could then work the band of color in the round, following the contour of the v, and top it off with a bit of i-cord or ribbing in the color of the sweater body.
I'm still puzzled, though, because the knitter would also have to be decreasing at the point of the v as she worked upward, to maintain the shape so that the finished fabric would lie flat instead of pouching out at the center top of the neckline. Centered decreases would do it, or even a sewn seam after the knitting was done (an unsatisfying but functional solution). But in the photograph it doesn't seem like either of those techniques were used. Look at the point of the v. There's a medallion motif right on center, where I'd have thought the decreases or seam would need to go. I'm trying to think of a way to combine decreases/seam AND a centered medallion motif, but it kind of jams my brain. I have to admit, though, it looks great! I don't think it would look as good without that centered medallion.
So this is how I've been spending my time: obsessing on small details of film costuming so as to distract myself from The Drama. It's kinda sorta working, but man, I'll be glad when I can get on with my life.
Well, drama and tension always sucks, but those Ms. Marples are awesome! Are you watching the ones with Geraldine McEwan? Those are my favourites. Sending thoughts for peace in your world soon :)
Perhaps the colorwork at the neck was worked in the same direction of the sweater (that is, not parallel to the neck line), and the motif is doing all the work. A vaguely circular shape won't look rotated either way, and a bias band of color is easy enough to work.
As you said, there doesn't look to be any shaping within the colorwork, so that is where my money would go.
I hope there's more good-stressful than bad-stressful for you right now, and that you'll get out from under it soon.
Love Miss Marple. :) I've always enjoyed the fashion in the Geraldine McEwan series. Light, flowing summer dresses, retro cardigans..
I don't see why a decrease at the V would preclude there being a motif knitted there. One would just work the decrease into the motif, or vice versa. Maybe I need to get some needles and puzzle this out. What a fun challenge!
And the Gidget movies are just plain awesome. Such realistic surfing. Haha!
(I hope your drama becomes less dramatic.)
I haven't a clue about the collar (way too advanced for my knitting skillz!) but I hope The Drama is resolved soon!
Wow, I usually just reply by email, but let it be noted that both Mercuria's intarsia idea and Maria's working-the-decreases-into-the-center-medallion idea are very intriguing...any other theories would be welcome, too! I posted out of idle curiosity, but I'm starting to think I need to rustle up some yarn scraps and see how close I can get to this look.
(Thanks for the nice words too, ladies.)
Ick, drama. Hope things clear up soon. In the meantime, a laugh is a good thing to elevate the mood, though sometimes I find I need an hour or two of laughing to dispel the blues. Hopefully you have some good friends to go out with or a funny movie to watch!
On the sweater question, I have to say my mind also jumped to a steek, and I assumed that the knitter would have picked up and knit in the round, it just seems logical.
I can't tell much detail from the picture, but if the centered medallion is puzzling you and there were decreases made to keep a v-neck (haven't made one yet) perhaps she simply worked the decreases into the pattern? Unless you can actually take a good look at the actual fabric either up close or in person, those can be hard to see, especially if the jumper was knit at a fine gauge. I have an extremely fine gauge fairisle yoke sweater whose decreases are well hidden in the pattern, and if you were either a person who didn't know about such things, or just looking at a non-close up picture, you wouldn't be able to tell just from looking where the decreases lie in the fabric.
I just saw that episode too! I've also found lots of inspiration in those old Marple movies, they're great. Now I must take a closer look at the jumper you're refering to.
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