Back again

I haven't blogged in ages, but I'm still knitting.

I think I'm probably moving in December, so I'm trying to do some clean up. So I've been going back to the UFO's I have laying around and finishing them off, as well as work from my stash.

I finished all the projects I had on the needles in April, as well as some new ones.

(Aren't the buttons just ADORABLE?)





I only finished my friend's scarf last week. I blocked it last night and gave it to her at church today. I must admit I was gratified to see her so pleased about it!
I forgot to take a photo of the stealth swap project I was working on. I started knitting up the KnitPicks Fedora I bought in April. I'm so enamored with steeking that the only thing I could decide about the pattern was that I was going to knit it in the round and cut it up the center to make a cardigan!

I've decided to make Pink Lemon Twist's Bristow Cardigan, but the construction is so different I guess the only Bristow part is the stitch pattern. The rest of it is just a percentage sweater from EZ's Knitting Workshop. I think I might try to do the seamless set-in sleeves, because I already have two cardigans with a round yoke. I've finished the body and I'm about halfway done with one sleeve. It's been holding lately while I finish UFO's from my basket.

New Semester, New Sweater!

Sorry, no photos today.

Classes started up again last week. I've decided to cut back on my job and go back to school full-time. At the rate I was going, it would have taken me six years to finish a two-year program.

What that means for me is lots and lots of reading time, so I've started a new sweater. This time around I'm making Elizabeth Zimmerman's Fair Isle Yoke Sweater. I still need to get the book that the yoke pattern is in, but I still have time. The body and sleeves of the sweater are from the Knitting Workshop book, which I have. When I finish that part of the sweater and am ready to start the color work, then I'll check with the library or buy the book.

Halfway...I think...

(Insides of the Scarlet Woman Sweater)

One of the advantages of marrying off all your roommates (three in as many years--they all live with me and then decide they want to get married--what's that say about me?) is that suddenly you have a ton of space to block things on the floor, and no one will care because it's not in the way!

The photo above is skewed--it looks like the armscye on the right is bigger than the other. I actually measured it and it's SMALLER; I think it's just the light and how I'm standing.

I'm finished with the Scarlet Woman sweater pattern as written and now I'm on my own for the sleeves. This is where it gets scary, because not only have I never designed my own sleeve caps or sweater yet, I've never MADE a sweater with sleeve caps before. The only sweaters I've done recently were round yoke sweaters (Tangled Yoke Cardigan) and raglan sweaters (Eris), both of which had the sleeves knit into the sweater as the pattern went along.

So I'm a little nervous! I think I'm going to wait for the body to dry, then flip it over and recheck my gauge on the stockinette portion. I really want to finish this sweater (it's been in my WIP list for almost six months) and I'm SOOO close I can smell it! But I also want to take my time and do the proper math and make sure it's right. I tend to get lazy and call things "good enough" and then, when the sweater is done, it doesn't look as good as I had planned. I want this one to be GOOD, not just good enough.

Knitting away

I've got a bad case of startitis. I've got one sweater, two scarves, two pairs of socks and one lace project all on the needles. I don't think that I have photos of all of them, but this is a start:

First up is the Scarlet Woman sweater. The link is for a tank, but I decided that I'd rather have a sweater than a tank. I've finished the front and have about twenty rows of the back ribbing done. There are quite a few articles online about how to figure out how to make set-in-sleeves, so hopefully this will turn out like I have in mind.

I've finished the first of the 3x3 Cable socks I started a while back. The yarn is Cherry Tree Hill Supersock Solids in Cherry Red. I'm slightly concerned that I'm not going to have quite enough to finish the second sock, but thanks to the wonder that is Ravelry, I can find people who have used this yarn and hopefully one of them will have leftovers that they'd be willing to sell to me. The label didn't seem to have a dye-lot listed, so hopefully the color will be a match. And if not, it shouldn't be too bad--it will only be the end of a toe and that will stay in my shoe anyway.

I've been itching to start a lace project lately, so tonight I cast on for the Adamas Shawl. I'm using some red cashmere recycled-sweater yarn on eBay from The Twice-Sheared Sheep.