i'm so excited, and i just can't hide it

i'm working on a cheongsam-style sweater, just making it up as i go along. i've gotten to the part where i want it to look like two separate pieces, without actually being two separate pieces - the diagonal closure that goes from the neckline to under the arm. i'm using knitpicks palette which is fingering weight, so it's so small it's hard to tell what i'm doing. but it seems to be working! check this out:



whee!! here's a close up, where you can see that some stitches look doubled-up on the needle - that's because i'm knitting two pieces at the same time:



just in case you have no idea what it's supposed to end up looking like, here are a couple of pics of cheongsams from in the mood for love, which is an awesome film that you should run out and see. and it was the inspiration for this sweater - all of maggie cheung's dresses are gorgeous: