Espresso Tank

The Espresso Tank is officially done. For a quick knit, this hasn’t been all that quick. It wasn’t even that there was a lot of knitting. It was just annoying. I rarely felt like working on it, so I made myself bring it to Rebecca’s or the Knit Salon so that the chatting could significantly distract myself from the knitting. But, it is done and I am ready to move on.

The Blue Sky Fitted Tank was knit on size 7 needles in Blue Sky Dyed Cotton in Espresso. I made the smallest size and used 2 full hanks and a 1/3 to a 1/2 of a third hank. The tank fits me nice (although that really doesn’t matter because it’s for my mom), but if I were to make myself one, I would lengthen it a bit. I also added a reverse crochet edge to the bind off edge that went around the neck to help straighten out the neckline (thanks to everyone at Rebecca’s for that suggestion – it worked great!). I would say that if you can take a little bit of time and work out a more gradually sloping neck, you should do it, because if made as instructed, you get a fairly ragged stair step that is really hard to smooth over with the finishing. I also skipped the arm hole finishing. My arms were very even and smooth and I didn’t want to risk messing it up by the finishing technique suggested. I am also apparently lazy, because I didn’t feel like bothering with a crochet edge either. I thought it looked nice as is. I was planning on making a second one of these in the same pale blue (Sky) I used for my Baby Blue Bobbi Bear, but it will probably be a while before I would want to knit this again. I plan to give it to my mom (as long as it is done drying) tomorrow when we go for our spa getaway at Glen Ivy.