Monthly archives: November 2007

My central park cardigan is sooooo close to being finished, and yet its taking a whole lot of self control not to cast on 5 more projects. I’ve been trying to fool myself into thinking that I don’t have that many things on the needles by changing the status from “in progress” to “hibernating” in my Ravelry notebook. That way when I log in I’m not confronted by the 15 things I cast on and abandoned this year.

I also can’t buy anymore yarn for a while. I’m serious this time. I placed a webs order and got yarn for the DNA sweater, as well as some coned fingering weight wool for a fair isle sweater design I have in my head.

After a lot of notes and charting, I was able to come up with a really sweet looking cable design, and a pretty bitchin’ swatch.

I also placed a Knit Picks order for the Ivy League Vest in the latest Interweave Knits.

I liked all the colors except “teal” (bottom left). That doesn’t look like teal to me, but it did look like teal on both my work and home monitors. It isn’t a big enough contrast from the ivy, so I substituted some nature spun fingering in nervous green from my stash for the swatch, and I love it. Its a nice khaki green.

I’m in love with this swatch and I’m trying really hard to finish the central park cardigan before I cast on. I plan on doing plain ribbing in ivy since I really don’t enjoy the look, or the knitting of corrugated ribbing. I’m really excited about this vest, I may need to go buy a white blouse with puff sleeves to wear under it too.

It looks something like this:



I can’t leave any kind of knitting anywhere, the above photos are of yarn that was INSIDE A DRAWER, which must have been really hard to get out. Also I’m having quite a hard time photographing my projects. For every kittenless photo,

There are about 10 like this.

The good thing is that kittens sleep about 18 hours a day, no joke, so I was able to finish the body on my Central Park Hoodie (that is actually a cardigan.)

I did the whole body in one piece, and then did the collar and button bands. And I’ve been cruising along on sleeve one. I should have a finished cardi by December!

Pattern: Triple Patterned Watch Cap from Hats On!

Yarn: Lion Wool in Natural, and Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in River

Modifications: Instead of doing a stitch pattern under the brim, I opted for no pattern because I was running out of the blue yarn (which was part of a ball left over from the Brea Bag). And I changed the crown pattern to a simple lice stitch.

This hat is for one of my bosses for Christmas, and I’m really happy with how it came out.

Pattern: Aran Stocking from Handknit Holidays

Yarn: Wool Ease chunky in grass held double, and Wool Ease Thick and Quick in raspberry.