#whenever you read anything i wrote remember i'm dyslexic okay

[somedaytakethetime]

Continuing on with my re-writing of the Old Testament this is just a joke on the fact that I can't write short things today's edition: Inspiration Images! (part 1 of lord knows how many..)

So.. I've amassed quite a lot of inspiration images and I'm using all these writings as sort of an organisation list for what I want to (re)create for my own wardrobe. The focus today? Knitwear!

Let's start with the fancy stuff. My plan, because of my own levels of comfort, is looser fit sweaters for daily wear but I still want to have a few tight fitted "fancy" sweaters for formal things. I like to dress up for Christmas and New Year's Eve, but I'm a bitch that runs cold and because of that my plans for "fancy silky black dress or fancy silky black pants" needs to have something warm and cosy on top of it that still looks like part of the outfit.

(links: image 1, image 2)

(links: image 3, image 4, image 5 ) (side note: don't you just love how terrible old photos look in terms of quality now?)

As with everything that I've saved and will amass here: I'm not making all of these, only one or two, possibly three fancy things, but I'm undecide. Whichever I pick would be knit with long sleeves of course. And the colours I'm thinking are navy blue, black and possibly cream and off-white. Those seem well suited for the holiday seasons and they would match the idealised versions of fancy outfits in my head (black and champagne silky slinky fabrics). The bows and details I would likely do in neutral tones too that would contrast with the main colour of the body. Granted I might use fancy yarn with glitter thread running through it or something, just for a touch of whimsy and because.. I LIKE SPARKLES OKAY!?

Anyway, fancy out and basics in. Currently I own no basic coloured yarn. I have many colours, usually either bright or jewel tones, and I would need to add some creams and beiges along with actual dark neutrals to the stash. I'm not sure I'm going to use all the yarn I have either, most of it has been given to me by others and I'm just.. not into those colours... I might give them to someone else because I just don't want to spend so many hours of my life working on clothes that I have no urge to wear. But that's another problem for another time.

For the casual day wear I have some designs in mind:

(links: image 6, image 7, image 8)

(links: image 9, image 10)

(links: image 11, image 12 I have a massive crush on this blonde lady that poses for the Drops designs but shhh don't tell nobody, image 13)

(links: image 14, image 15, image 16)

Number 16 is my inspiration for this old rose sweater I'm currently working on. Number 14 I'm thinking of making in a bright cobalt blue I have and number 15 in bright green my mum has saved for decades now. Why? Those colours will definitely look better as a simple slouchy sweater. It's impossible to make them stripped because no other colour will downplay how BRIGHT they are so.. I just need to lean into being a Sesame Street Muppet.. I have plans for basic sweaters in muted shades, and a few slipovers too, granted this is where we get into my goal of knitting loungewear. I have a few ideas which will be interesting to achieve because I've never knit trousers or shorts before... but I need comfortable house clothes too.

In all what we're looking at currently is: more beige less neon (I'm going to end up either as the sad beige aunt or the moody navy aunt at the end.. it'll be a riot for my family to witness this metamorphosis from circus clown on LSD to depressed almond allergic to gluten..). More simple baggy shapes, less tight fitted things in weird stitches.

As for cardigans. Realistically? I don't need a ton. I wear them most in the winter, and I've learned they can't be tight fitted. I won't wear them if I can't wear everal layers underneath and while I love the 'cardigan as a top, tiddies easy and breezy' look I wouldn't torture myself like that in the winter.. I like my nipples were they are, they don't need to fall off... And with that in mind, here's what I'm looking at:

(links: image 17, image 18, image 19, image 20, image 21)

I'm thinking duality of making some in cotton for summer and others in wool. I get cold in the summer too so I need at least one cardigan to wear during those moments and wool? Not it. I don't wear my cardigans buttoned, I've learned that too, so in the past when I hated low v-necks? That's gone now because I prefer the look on an unbuttoned deep v-neck vs a high scoop or rounded neck. There's also these three.. I'll just link those (link 1, link 2, link 3) because in total honesty I'm not sure if I'll add these to the 'make' list or not. Link 1 and link 3 are colourwork cardigans and with 3? It's honestly just because I like her outfit and realistically how often will I wear an exact outfit like that? I can't even wear that bright white... and link 2 is a crochet cardigan. Now, I crochet so I won't ever rag on crocheted clothing, I have two crochet sweaters, but they took *ages* to make and they ate up so much yarn.. I'm just not a fan of how slow crocheting clothing is. It still looks super cute, but I just get bored quickly.

Now for my final act I've been thinking about summer too. It's too late to actually knit anything for summer now, but I want to make a few tops in cotton that I'll be able to wear during the summer. Only this year did I start wearing sleeveless and very short sleeved tops (I hate my arms, they're flabby and I have weird spots on my shoulders, not even to mention that I have a birthmark that's literally blue so it looks like a permanent bruise on my left shoulder..) and there's so many cute ones out there but I can't make everything so... narrowing down to:

(links: image 22, image 23, image 24, image 25, image 26, image 27)

I figured that number 23 I can make in a few solid colours, and maybe one or two stripped too so I don't need a ton of other designs besides that basic one. The same applies to the rest. I still need to figure out exactly how many knit summer tops I would realistically like and wear which is honestly the hardest part of all....

But for now that's it. I have so many other images and plenty of other things I need to reconsider either I'd actually make or not but I'll break that into other categories soon because it makes it easier in my brain. Next up, I'm thinking that looking at colourwork and add-ons is needed. I don't need all the beanies, scarves and mittens in the world given that I don't wear a ton of them. Plus.. socks. That I do need to make, I'm trying to make a switch to a me-made wardrobe so socks? Always a necessity. But maybe *neutral* socks now, Sunny, instead of all the neon oranges and blues you've made in the past, yeah?