I finished 'Shrug This' and I guess it turned out alright... I had to add a few more increases in the arms because there was no way it would fit me (atleast not comfortably) and then I just knit the length until I ran out of yarn. It looked pretty good but small so I figured I would block it and see if it stretched any... but the question is, how do you block a completed garment so that it doesn't end up all wonky with creases and such? I tried laying it out on the spare bed with a towel underneath but it didn't seem the sleeve areas were drying very well at all, so I flipped back the front panels to let them finish drying... what did I end up with? It's still too small and now it doesn't lay right either. Fooey! From reading about a few other people who made this as well, it has become apparently to me that it isn't meant for anyone who has any hint of cleavage if you follow the pattern. Wish I had known that before I started! (it doesn't list size options so I figured it was a one size fits all kind of thing). Now I'm off to try and find a flat friend for whom I can gift it... if I can get rid of that wonky-ness

I cast on for the Josephine top in Interweave Knits Summer 2007. The picture makes the top look incredibly small on the girl so, considering the boobage issue with the last project, I decided to do the next size up. I did a gauge (and then undid it after measuring because I hate to waste yarn on 'silly squares') and it worked out so along I went. Then I stepped back and realized that, for just the back, it was going to be incredibly too large. Another fooey! I wasn't too far in, but frogging can be such a mean hearted bitch... I cast on again for the smallest size, went down a needle size, and decided to try knitting front and back together at once, in the round, as I saw someone mention in a craftster post. So far so good except the boy has restricted me from knitting until we finish the basement so I'm still on the first row... what a meanie!!!! (But I still can't help but love him!)