One step at a time. It’s a very pretty design.
If you join both shoulders the pick up on the neck will work best with a circular needle, usually a 16 inch. You could leave one shoulder open then pick up with straight needles for the neck but the seam at the neck won’t be as neat at the 3 needle bind off collar join. Do-able just not as simple.
Problem sewing up sweater
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Wonderful! hopefully that part will work, thank you, will get my circulars at the ready and give it a go, luckily she only wants the low neck life is good.
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After a long career making theatrical costumes, I just have to say—that’s a poncho, not a tabard as titled (and mis-spelled!) by the designer. I get so annoyed when words that have long meant one thing get attached to something else entirely. Thank you, @Sue3, for giving it its proper name!
Don’t get me started on “snood”…
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I have a collection of so called “snoods” mostly army merino wool my god they lifesavers if your head and neck warm you’re good, at 69 don’t care what I look like as long as I’m warm.
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Yes, it’s come to mean a sort of cowl or neck gaiter that can be pulled up over the head. But until recently, and for literally hundreds of years, it meant this:
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What’s the function of this snood?
Is it for decoration and to stop your hair getting blown in the wind?
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Both! High fashion ones, with pearls or beads, and practical ones to keep the hair in place. They’ve been used since as far back as 725 AD, were very popular in medieval Europe, the Renaissance, again in the late Victorian period, and had a big resurgence as women entered the workforce during WWII…to keep long hair from getting caught in machinery.
So I’m always a bit baffled when it’s applied to an oversized cowl!
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Women looked really smart those days and feminine.
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Thanks for the fab fashion history lesson. Brilliant pics and info. I love it.
I’m afraid I’ve let the side down, I’ve always worked with machinery, I have a lot of long hair, and never once worn a snood. If only I’d had this lesson earlier!
I did of course tie my hair up for safety, obviously.
Those days are gone now, but perhaps if I made myself one of these it would stop all the hair I get trapped in my knitting? Functional and fashionable.
I’ll never misuse the word snood ever again.
Also, can we have a thread where you just keep teaching me things, the info is brilliant?
PS sorry sue, your thread was hijacked!
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Colocro u started something now, always wished I was around In the 1920s loved the clothes, next project learn to sew and make those lovely dresses add a cigarette holder this old girl be in her glory!
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I could do that, I suppose. Works best for me if someone comes out with a question, otherwise, fashion history is an enormous subject! Next time something tweaks me, I’ll start a separate thread. Sorry for hijacking yours, @Sue3!
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