Pink Cotton Pullover and Denim Midi Skirt

I finished this pullover in Wool and the Gang Cotton in June, but I have not been able to wear it until now, when is a little cold in my neck of the woods. I wanted to try a cabled pullover, and after some trial and error I decided to make three cables in the middle front and back, with some reverse stitch around them, and stocking stitch for the rest. I also made one cable along each of the sleeves. 

I decided to use again Ann Budd's book and free style my design over there, adding the cables and adapting the neckline shaping, sleeve caps and the width in general to the cables. To do that, I made two 20 cm samples, one without cables  and the other one with three cables, and being them the same stitches, measured them and calculated the shrinking caused by the cables. 

I am very happy with the result, and it wears wonderfully with jeans or the jumpsuit bellow. As for the skirt, I used my old self pattern for a long A skirt, which is wonderful and sooooo fruitful, I've made a lot of variations. Wait to see the short red leather one I made just before this denim midi one. I panelled the skirt pattern into eight parts and cut it along the middle front to incorporate the button and buttonhole closing. 

The skirt was toooooo wide at first trial, so I took a progressive amount of fabric off every panel, from the hips to 5 cm at the bottom. At the 2nd fitting, there was some weird shaping and I had to readjust it with a ruler, undo the eight freaking panels and sew them again. 

And finally, Perfection. It is comfortable, and very becoming to my figure, I really love it. It is a pity I will not wear it and wash it often again for the denim to age properly. It is lovely, but too stiff now. I bought the denim in Denimlab website, with three more pieces to make jeans. This denim is 100% cotton, with pink selvage, and no elastic at all, perfect for this skirt. 

Here I am in Sitges Fantastic Cinema Festival with my Liberty Jumpsuit, which has the same tone of dust pink, and it is just perfect. The neck opening was too closed, and I undid it when we came back, making it again with bigger needles, the same 5.5 that I used for the rest of it, except for the bodice and sleeves' bottom 2x2 ribbing.

Here is my Raverly entry.