Due to a long phone call on Thursday night, I didn’t find time to work on Sylvi until Friday afternoon. This was probably a good thing, because the last part of the chart wasn’t adding up and I was in no state of mind to be puzzling it out. So on Friday I compared my printout to the pdf, and sure enough there were colours that hadn’t translated into b&b clearly. With those bits marked with a highlighter it all made sense. Well, until the pattern did something wierd, but by then I was fudging in an extra leaf to finish the pattern early rather than knit the hood so I just kept making it up.

Then I sewed all the pieces together and cast off the neck edge. When I tried it on I didn’t like how wide the neckline was, so I knit up a band in the same pattern specs for the cuff, and sewed that on. I mostly like the result, but I’m probably going to unpick the start and end of the band and rip back to make it level with the fronts rather than overlapping. (Unfortunately you can’t see it in any of the pics.)

Here’s how I ‘finished’ the cable pattern:

On Saturday morning I tackled the petals. I was hoping that I’d get all three flowers done before I had to leave for the airport, but only managed one:

So I didn’t manage to finish Sylvi before leaving, but I got pretty close:

At the airport this plane arrived while I was waiting to board mine.

The effect is quite eye-catching and got some of the waiting passengers all excited. I thought at first it might be a celebrity’s plane, but it’s one of two that Qantas commissioned a special paint job for.