hi everybody!

hey all! i don't even have my yarn yet, but i too am aiming to be done in time for lollapalooza! i will hopefully be making a trip to the yarn store early next week to get officially started. right now i am thinking i might try to use wick, if i can track some down.

thats all for now!
annette

First Post!

Hi all! I'm very pleased to find this KAL. I've been working on Coachella since last thursday. Since I have been unable to find Berrocco products in my town. (indeed, according to the Berrocco website nobody in my town carries its products) I was forced to sub in a yarn. I had Mission Falls cotton in the stash, so off I went! I did the first try on as suggested in the pattern and it looked okay. Tried it on a little further along and at first view it seemed fine.

Looking a little closer, hmmm, might be hanging a bit strange around the bust.Turned sideways and oh boy, strange is not the word!I tugged a bit at it, thinking the cotton was just a bit more rigid than the suede would have been. Upon closer inspection, I think the bust shaping I added was a mistake. It's just too big. So I frogged it back past the shaping and am trying it without the bust shaping. Thank goodness this is a pretty quick knit!

Any thoughts?

Ciao

aloha!

greetings from hawai'i!
i too was thrilled to see this great design on knitty and had to cast on immediately. instead of the suede, i'm using a slubby cotton from suss -- one strand of pale gray and another of a pale mauve/pink. my progress was moving along nicely until i decided to whip up a market bag for a last-minute present. at last i'm getting back to coachella. one issue that confounded me a bit was when rejoining the upper back to the front (after making the armholes), is the marker denoting the beginning of the round on the right or the left of the back stitches? wasn't clear on that but i don't think it matters much.
camera was accidentally left at the party with the market bag so the posting of pictures will have to wait.
-michelle

Time to start a knit-a-long.

Do you want to knit Coachella from the new Knitty? Well, so do I. Let's get each other going. My goal is to wear Coachella to Lollapalooza this year... can I do it?

If you want to be involved, set yourself up in blogger (if you haven't already) and email me at leah bust com (or leave your email address in the comments, if you're feeling okay about the interwebs). I'll send you a contributor invitation, and you can start posting, too.

To celebrate the beginning of the Coachella singalong, here's a song from a headliner at the Coachella fest this year:

Bjork - Army of Me (m4a)