It’s the middle of this chilly June night and I can’t sleep. I suspect that the cup of decaf tea I had this past evening was not so very decaf’d, so here I am. Why not blog?
I hope you’ve seen David’s amazing Fair-Isle sweater. He was in the mood for Fair Isle, so just whipped it up in a week! It’s totally gorgeous. One of these days, he’s going to start designing his own and become a rock star in the knitting world. He already looks the part, only better.
We received the new Noro Magazine.
It’s full of good projects shown in Noro yarns, and many would look just as good in solid colors.
We also received Knitscene Accessories, full of small projects that are just right for this time of year when you might not want the commitment of a sweater.
Meanwhile, I spent a significant part of the week ripping and re-knitting the body of a sweater that I thought was done. Come to find out, it wasn’t! Sometimes I can go off on my own from a pattern and it’s just what I want it to be, and sometimes not so much. This was the latter case and it really had to be ripped out. But before I faced it, I had tried it on, convinced myself that blocking would add enough drape to lengthen it and tone down the flare so that it didn’t look like I was wearing a partially-opened umbrella, blocked it, dried it, tried it on, and then finally admitted that it was just wrong. Oh, well. It’s ripped, re-knit, re-blocked and should be ready for viewing in a couple days.
I just started “Yeti” designed by Svetlana Volkova.
It’s a top-down short-sleeved winter pullover done in a light-bulky yarn. Pretty simple and fast but the interesting thing is the “contiguous” sleeve construction. This method of adding top-down set-in sleeves (thought up by Susie Myers and explained here on Ravelry) is done with increases cleverly placed to shape shoulders then expand into a sleeve cap, with no picking up and no short rows. If you’re a little tired of plain ol’ raglan shaping or think that raglans are not flattering to you, give this a try. Here’s my Yeti so far, done in Riva from Debbie Bliss:
And a close-up of the sleeve and shoulder:
Isn’t that nice and neat, with the colors aligned just like in raglans?
Meanwhile, Danielle Smith has been busy, what with making this beautiful baby set and working on her Ecuador cardy, plus a couple more things in the works. This is the wonderful little sweater and hat she made:
Note the reversible cable on the button band and then look at how it repeats in the blanket she made:
and here’s the whole blanket. Isn’t it just beautiful?
This was no 8-hour baby blanket!
And Janis Edwards finished her Roman Stripe pullover, found the perfect tank to wear underneath it, and came in to model. It looks wonderful on her!
Jackson just came down to see what the heck I’m up to at this time of night. I’m keeping him up so I guess I’ll try for some sleep. See you soon!
