I’m already preparing for the fall.
At the beginning of this year, I’ve had a crazy urge to knit sweaters. “This is the year of the sweaters!” I told everyone, “Sweaters!!” And I was serious. I generally don’t knit a lot of sweaters (e.g., more than 1), but this year I will. So far, I’ve begun three in the last few weeks.
The first is an eyelet cardigan, knitted out of Rowan Wool Cotton. This eyelet design first appeared in a sweater coat I had begun early last year in a gorgeous, maroon alpaca. Despite being pretty far along on the coat, the fear of running out of yarn (it was an ebay purchase years ago so I knew the chances of getting the same dyelot were next to nil) forced me to rip and save it for something else.
I’ve been wanting to work with Wool Cotton for a while, but hadn’t figured out what to do with it until I saw this beautiful color. Hello, yellow!
The second sweater design is a three-quarter sleeve, baseball raglan, alpaca sweater. Whew! The lighter pink will be the body while the darker pink is used as the sleeves, and bottom and neck border. This is knitted out of stash yarn bought at a fiber fest two summers ago.
Using Elizabeth Zimmermann’s raglan design (found in The Opinionated Knitter) as a guide, this is a rather quick knit since there are technically no designs to fiddle with. Everything will be worked in the round, with seaming done to attach the sleeves to the body since they will be different colors. Overall, I’m enjoying the process and can’t wait to see how it’ll fit… though, with the summer heat coming on strong, I might have to go to the freezer section at the grocery store to try it on.
The third sweater is a Rowan design. Found in RM 45, Ansouis is a really nice cardi knitted out of Summer Tweed, a silk/cotton blend. If you’ve never held a garment out of Summer Tweed, I swear, it’s as light as styrofoam.
This was started just recently and is moving along really fast. Incredible how quick the knitting goes when someone else does the designing for you!
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“Attention Schnuck’s customers: Would the odd ball lady with the stack of sweaters in the freezer section please come to the front? Your poor husband is still waiting for you!”
Sure. Very funny. You think I’d really bring him along?