Sweater: Charlie by Jordana Paige
Pants: Express
Shoes: Bakers
Shirt: Target
Flower pin: Charlotte Russe
Bag: The Knitter’s Messenger Bag by Jordana Paige
I love the combination of pink and grey. It’s so soft and feminine. Every day I use The Knitter’s Messenger Bag in Pink/Black Tweed to carry my laptop from my home to office and back. As I put this outfit together I didn’t even think about how awesome it would look with the messenger bag. I picked up my bag to head out the door, looked down and got really excited. So cute!
This is also a great reminder for me to tell you that The Knitter’s Messenger Bag in Pink/Black Tweed has been discontinued and only a few remain. It will probably be sold out by the end of the year. So, here’s your warning. If you’ve been wanting one, act now before they’re gone.
Sweater: Charlie by Jordana Paige
Jeans: Express
Shoes: Payless
Rings: Gran
Bangle: Grandma
Earrings: The Limited
Purse: The Knitter’s Satchel by Jordana Paige
When I designed Charlie I wanted it to be a sweater that was a go-to sweater; the sweater you can throw on when you just don’t know what to wear, oversleep and don’t have time to think through an outfit or are simply having one of those I-feel-frumpy-and-ugly days. With the cowl neck and puffy sleeves, there’s a lot going on at the top of the sweater, so I avoid wearing big earrings and necklaces with it, which means less time needed to get dressed. You can just quickly throw on Charlie with a pair of jeans or dress pants and feel confident as you walk out the door that you’re looking pretty good. And when that cute guy in line at the post office starts flirting with you, you can smile to yourself and think, “maybe this isn’t a frumpy day.”
Did you catch that cute cowl-neck sweater Elizabeth was wearing while modeling Rio? Well sneaky me, that’s my latest sweater design, Charlie, and it’s now available for download. Get it here.
Charlie is a great transition sweater from fall to summer. It can be worn with just a pair of jeans now and add a long sleeve shirt underneath as the weather cools. Charlie is worked from the top down and is, of course, seamless. Stitches are picked up around the neck and armholes to work the cowl and sleeves respectively. There’s three lace patterns, worked in the round. The lace-work is both charted and written out by row, so you can choose which method you prefer.
Here’s a sneak peak at my happy accident. The sweater I’m working on, Charlie, (available here this September) was moving along nicely until I got to the sleeves. I just didn’t know what to do with them.
Unexcited I decided to just start in on a basic set-in sleeve. I picked up way too many stitches around the armhole, resulting in a big sleeve cap. I scrunched it up and was thrilled at how good it looked.
The sleeve got ripped out and redesigned to be a properly formed puffy sleeve. Charlie is now happily blocking for Sunday’s photo shoot. Can a sweater be happy?
