sketch

To the left is what the high neck lace top that I'm knitting, as the pattern is written. If I hadn't kept ripping back, I would probably be done with the front by now! I know, that kind of thinking isn't very productive, blah blah blah.

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To the right is a photoshopped draft of what my modifications will do to the pattern. The lace panel on the top will be less dramatic, since the eyelet portion is cut and pasted from the bottom, where the eyelets are black because the model's wearing a black skirt.