Where my Carla's at!

I've fallen out of blogging in the last few weeks, as I've been busy wrapping up the last 6 years of life in this city before I leave in just 6 short days! Really I should be packing my apartment (for example: like this and this), however posting to this blog seems so much more important at this moment than packing my dishes!

So last week I rocked on through knitting the sleeves. I had taken a number of pictures during the part where you drop the stitches - it was my first time dropping stitches and quite frankly, I found it rather exciting! If anyone is interested I can share those pictures. Today however I'd like to share pictures of my experience with the Carla sleeve embroidery. I followed the instructions in the pattern and here's what I was able to create:

Close up of the stitch
I could have paid more attention to which side of the tail I was inserting my needle, as I have some places where I've since noticed that the wraps are a little wonky because they are wrapped in the opposite direction. I also snapped a shot with the sleeve on:

Last week I did seam Carla up...but I don't have any pictures of that momentous event to share, as I'm not too keen on how wide she is. The neck is really quite wide and the body could benefit from being more narrow too. So I'm thinking that I'll reknit them once I get to California and have some downtime in a few weeks.