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Okay, so my corset isn’t silk, it’s cotton/viscose.  I am too cheap to knit with 100% silk, at least for something I’ll be wearing in the DC summer (read: hot, sticky, disgusting). 

Seems like I do a lot of preknitting math when I knit top down.  I did my swatch, got gauge and then looked at the stitch counts in the pattern…. there is a LOT of negative ease calculated in and the schematic is just plain weird.  I’m knitting the 35.75″ size, but it still barely fits my 34″ chest.  Going up a size isn’t an option; don’t have enough yarn.  Gripe #2 is the armholes, which are essentially slits.  I hate this method, I did the cast off/cast on as loose as I could without it getting all sloppy, and the armholes are TIGHT.  Issue #3: the pattern directs you to start bust decreases at a point that is still about 2″ above the widest part of my chest…. not happening.

Despite the angst, I am enjoying this knit.  The yarn is so pretty, a perfect icy pale blue-purple.  Plus, when I tried it on, C said the spiky lace looks “vampiric”.  That is a plus in my book!   I’m hoping blocking will relax the fabric and I’ll make mods to the shaping as necessary.