I can’t seem to knit anything but sweaters this summer. I always enjoy them, but I also love quick little projects that are more intricate, or use different techniques, or are just faster. But I go from one sweater to the next and sometimes two at a time – there are so many patterns I want to make!
I’ve just started Hannah Fettig’s Lightweight Pullover for my niece
in this gorgeous shade of Serena from Manos del Uruguay – this is a great yarn to knit with and I’m not even minding that it’s on 4’s.
I believe Jettie Hunt is using Serena for a Featherweight Cardigan and also really likes working with the yarn. I love the pullover style and want one in Fresco (like the photo) for myself – someday.
I’m also working on Beaubourg, a new pattern from Fairmount Fibers in Maxima, also from Manos.
Manos is doing something different this year, and I’m not sure where it will take them. They’ve discontinued many colors in their Wool Clasica and Silk Blend yarns, and greatly expanded their colors in Maxima, which is a lovely extra-fine merino singles reminiscent of Malabrigo but in Manos’s lovely semi-solid colorways and of course, produced by the Manos Cooperative that has done so much good for the workers and their families, and is one of the only yarn companies to be designated Fair Trade. Anyhoo, I’m in love with the new colors and ordered a bundle of every single one to be here in September. You can browse here – the new ones are designated “New for Fall 2012”). I’m working with Slate:
I’m even doing reverse stockinette, which I generally do not lovethe look of, because I like the pattern so much.
So it’s all easy knitting right now and I can’t stop with the sweaters, even though I have several balls of yarn on deck to make hats, and I really, really want to make a bunch of hats – don’t ask me why – but just can’t get away from sweaters.
Our MadelineTosh came in and so much went out that I won’t even show you the photos I took on arrival – but there are beautiful colors left, believe me, some of them the most popular, like Composition Book Grey
Calligraphy
Steam Age
and several more, including a couple new ones – Volga and Lowland, both of which are lovely and are not even on their website yet, and a beautiful yellow that I want with all my heart, if I weren’t pretty much the same color as the yarn, darn it.
Deb Schlarb modeled her Ecuador for us – we had to go outside into the searing heat to get the colors to show:
Stunning colors, and a perfect fit. She also finished this pretty baby blanket
…all while selling her house and getting ready to move, working, traveling, and raising her very nice son. A superwoman! Or an insomniac! Don’t know!
Jill Pelcher made this absolutely adorable poncho for one of her granddaughters…
(sorry for the eye-frying lack of focus) and is now in the process of making two more for granddaughters 2 & 3.
Melissa Korth finished this great wrap
– and is fighting off a friend who wants it a lot. No, this one is for Melissa – the friend will get another one! Isn’t it pretty in Noro?
Are you sick of me yet? Fine, then enough for this week. See you soon!
Trish
