Festive sweater: progress

Some progress on the festive sweater. The body is finished - I added increases from the bust, creating a kind of empire line to suit my body shape, and cast off with a picot edging. I think I made up the technique for the picot - I did a row of (yo,k2tog) then a few rows plain, then I folded at the yo row and stitched the live stitches down to the inside to create the seam and bind off in one go. It worked quite well and made a nice stretchy edging. I hate when the bind-off row feels too tight.



I've started the arms now using Magic Loop, just trying to decide how to shape and finish them - probably picot edging to match the body, maybe with a smaller fair isle motif around the cuff.