Love story... and Accessory For Your Spring Suit.

It has started in December... I asked Babbo Natale for some DROPS Alpaca yarns, and my love story with this yarn has started Chritmas time... First present has arrived...
They are perfect for knitting vintage sweaters and I started with "Accessory For Your Spring Suit" from my favourite "A Stitch in time" http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Natie379/accessory-for-your-spring-suit
It was a beautiful color - pale green with apple shades:

It was such a pleasure to knit it on the New Year's Eve!

It was my first experience working with this yarn, I'm used to knit with yarns for machine knitting, which tend to shrink after washing, so I made a mistake using 4mm needles. The result was:

01/03 Washed the back and front - came out enormous. 
11/03 It’s a wonderfull pattern, my mistake was to use 4 mm needles, now I’ll restart this project with another color of Alpaca Mix with 3,5 mm needles. 

I put this project apart for a while and knitted this one Bette Accessory for Your Spring Suit (mix). Another gorgeous color

Then I restarted "Accessory For Your Spring Suit" with another blue-violet Alpaca Mix  8120 http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Natie379/accessory-for-your-spring-suit-2

I made minimum of the modifications, cast on the same number of stitches, but as always I changed the shape of the armholes and sleeves. I knitted the lace rib in the end, in the round on the body, straight on the sleeves (I hate sock needles).

And I made the sleeves shorter and straight from the rib, without the increasings, it took more yarn, but I like them more in this way.

I used 7,7 skeins, this yarn is rather economic - less then 400 gr for a warm sweater.

This time it is perfect!  The size is exactly what I wanted. 

Now it would be nice to sew a new pencil skirt, using this fabric:

before the summer starts!