The Color of the Day

… appears to be eggshell (or pale cream or off-white or ecru or whathaveyou).

First off, thanks to the web-browsing skills of Tamara and the picture-downloading prowess of Melissa, I can now show you the KnitPicks catalogue photos of the Bed Jacket from Knitting Lingerie Style.

I am just blown away by the blend of extreme comfy and extreme girly this piece seems to offer. Comfy’s easy enough to find, as is girly, but too often they’re mutually exclusive.

And as long as we’re on pale, underwear-inspired knit designs (somehow that phrase doesn’t do these pieces justice), let’s also have a shout-out for Interweave Knits‘ Corset Pullover, the pattern for which is available free through Knitting Daily.

This pullover has been around for a while, but I first saw a photo of it in an IK article a while back about the designer, Robin Melanson (genius!), and was delighted to find the pattern available on-line. In August, Knitting Daily offered a post showing women of various sizes modeling this piece, which actually gave me some hope that I could pull it off myself, particularly if I lengthened the body a bit, so the hem would hit further below my waist. (I’m thinking I’d be best off avoiding the ride-up-unintentional-tummy-peek .)

I’d love to hear from anyone who has knit either of these two pieces. Any suggestions about yarn choices? Fit? Clarity of patterns? Pictures of yourself modeling FOs that you’d like me to post here, thereby endowing you with glorious, glorious knitting immortality?