My poor little sweater has been sitting in my knitting basket, armless, for ages. The pattern itself is quite easy and goes rather fast, but I just got stumped when I came to the sleeves. I had been working them on my
DPN's and my size 8
DPN's must weigh as much as a baby elephant, because of this it was very cumbersome and I had all kinds of ladders and tension issues. I ended up ripping back to where the sleeves had been separated and working them with magic loop (I'm officially now a convert to using magic loop for sleeves, so much better!)
There had been some sweater
wonkiness (I need buttonhole tutoring!!) but blocking has solved much of what was bugging me and I'm now just tickled pink about this guy. The buttons are dark brown wood, and I'm thinking of this sweater as my Forest
Cardi (my last sweater was
Ysolda Teague's Cloud Bolero which became my
Ocean Sweater, a Fire sweater would be a fun way to warm up in January, any suggestions for a good pattern/yarn?).
As for Mods, I did much fewer for this pattern than I did for my last sweater. The biggest change was the sleeves. I did garter stitch the whole way down, and started decreases at the beginning of the sleeves, I decreased two stitches every other row (on the knit row) until I had 40 stitches (down from 52 I believe) for a nice snug but not too tight fit. The end result is snug and very cozy (thanks in large part to the Nashua Creative Focus yarn which has a nice plush quality to it). Hooray for another project finished and out of my knitting basket!!
I was just on Ravelry voting in the Dye for Glory contest and came across these two beauties by Three Irish Girls. It's like someone thought "what are Lulu's favorite colors, and how can I make yarn she will absolutely drool over." As soon as I saw these I thought of doing an entrelac scarf with the warm colors cheering me up on even the most wintery blustery day. Alas, Sea Anemone was not meant to be, it sold out within 12 hours and is now going back into the vault. Luckily I was just as enamored with Georgia Peach (this is a lie, I love Sea Anemone more but this is a good consolation). I will now anxiously await my delicious delivery and hope upon hope that Sea Anemone's time in the vault is not too painfully long!!!
