Pictures of finished projects in an unfinished stage and pictures of projects that I'm not working on

After completing the holiday knitting (and the birthday knitting) and ringing in the new year, your faithful blogger decided to... no, not finish old projects like the cardigan that's been hanging around with a gaping hole in the back, but to start new ones. I'm too lazy right now to take a picture of the actual pattern that I started, so instead I'll post a picture of a sort of similar top on a pattern book that I was thinking of buying. It's crochet, not knit, and no, those aren't my fingers. I'm also too lazy to crop them out.



The differences are this: the pattern I'm using has no sleeves, it's knit, not crochet, so there are no pineapple sleeve trim (which I think is kind of cute) and all in all, there's less openwork (which I also think is kind of cute). In place of the openwork, substitute staggered bobbles. I know, less cute.

But anyway, I don't mind the lack of sleeves and the pattern I'm using does have rather cute (I'm overusing the word cute today, but I did go to a Japanese store today... that must be why!) horizontal lace bands dividing the different sections and some short row shaping. I'm trying to come up with a way to extend the vertical lace bands to the hem of the top, but I don't think that's really going to work out. Instead, I'm trying to find a suitable stitch pattern to replace the weird-ish bobbles. I think bobbles are tricky. If they aren't done right, they start to look like random warts, which I can do without, really.