I might run out of yarn. Knowing this makes me knit faster,
as thought that will ultimately make a difference.
Even if I do it will be O.K., because this sweater is supposed to have a hood, which could become a collar, and long sleeves, which could become 3/4 length sleeves.
It just means I have to make a decision.
Long sleeves. There, I did it.
I’ve been going to a lot of really cold ball games lately. It has been depressing to get out my winter woolens again, so I thought I would make something a bit springier.
The pink yarn is Rowan Cashsoft Cotton, leftover from a vest I knit a long time ago, along with some green yarn of the same type, stolen from my current sweater project. The pattern is from the Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns.
Handy, indeed. But today the temperature is in the 80′s.
It is spring concert season, and baseball season, and travel soccer season, and school musical season, and there isn’t a lot of knitting going on,
but I have gotten a start on #24 from the Vogue Spring/Summer 2012.
I am using some Rowan Cashsoft cotton from my stash. It is soft and feely.
And even on days that I can’t knit it, I can look at it, touch it, and think about it. For now that will have to be enough.
I LOVE my new scarf. I wear it every chance I get. It is perfect for a Chicago spring, when I want to wear new, spring-y clothes, but the weather still calls out for wool. My scarf kept me warm during a cold rehearsal this morning. It will probably keep me warm for the performance tomorrow night. And then there’s Easter, another great excuse to accessorize. (I feel so grown up when I accessorize.)
It is #14 from the Spring Vogue 2012, knit with Classic Elite Premiere yarn, and it was a good idea.
Since I finished it I seem to be out of good ideas, though. My Knitting mojo seems to have gone on Spring Break without me.
Until it comes back, I will just enjoy wearing my new scarf.
This is my #14 Drop Stitch Scarf from the Spring/Summer Vogue Knitting. After I finish knitting I get to drop stitches all the way down, between the lace panels. It looks like a good thing to wear when it feels like it SHOULD be warm out but isn’t quite yet. Maybe I’ll have it done in time for Easter.
What’s that in the background, you say? Is that the Gulf of Mexico? Why yes, gentle reader, it is, as seen from the balcony of a rental house on Galveston Island, Texas. What a nice Spring Break diversion it was.
I love the Easter egg colored houses:
And the charming downtown, which has somehow survived the hurracanes:
Check out this dress made out of magazines:
And the Gulf of Mexico with these cute little birds running around:
And these pelicans sitting around:
But back to knitting: if you are like me and appreciate wearable, classic sweaters with a twist, check out the new Vogue Knitting. I would wear almost everything there, which is unusual, since Vogue is usually more fashion runway based.
Yay, Vogue!
And I am in it! Woohoo!
Petal is pleased to meet you.
Yesterday I knit a polar bear.
He is Peabey, a polar bear designed by Snowden Becker. I first saw the pattern when it appeared on the back cover of my Knitpicks catalogue. Now I think I have a new favorite designer.
I am also working on this:
It is one of my own patterns in progress.
Is it spring yet???
I love knitting with history. In her book Marvelous Mittens, Charlene Schurch speaks of the knitting traditions of the Komi people of Russia, specifically about their beautiful mittens.
I have been meaning to knit these mittens for years. The yarn is some discontinued Rowan dk light or something. The gauge was a little off so the tips are more rounded than the traditional style. I stopped before the chart told me to.
I love them because they are colorful and cheery. I wonder if the Komi people looked at them that way too, or if they were so common to them that their beauty was taken for granted. Function over beauty, or beauty over function?
One night my older son got invited to a friend’s house for a sleepover, but my younger son didn’t. So we took my younger son to the movies.
We saw “We Bought a Zoo.” While predictable, it was a feel-good movie, and even better, it was a showcase of hand knits:
There were lots of 70′s style fair isle sweaters, and a great fair isle tam of which I could not find a picure. There was also a Lopi Sweater worn by Scarlett Johannson.
And of course, we have Matt Damon to look at:
But I digress. A friend told me that I must be the only person who would ever notice such a thing (the knits, not Matt Damon.)
I really doubt that.
I made myself a special thing. It is a Fresco Cowl made out of Jade Sapphire 100% Mongolian Cashmere 4-ply, color 117, that I bought impulsively after a bad day.
It was lovely to knit. But Christmas came, and the cowl sat, unfinished, on my nightstand. Now it is finally done.
I used Jeny’s suprisingly stretchy bind-off. It was easy, and is indeed suprisingly stretchy.
Sailor never tried the Kitty-Pi cat bed,
But a little catnip in the Kitty-Pi did the trick for Daphne.
I love happy endings.
