After receiving this photograph yesterday, I simply had to update my post.
Another Friday Finish – Update
Category: knitting
Another Friday Finish – update
After receiving this photograph yesterday, I simply had to update my post.
It has been a delight to make this charming sweater for my grand-daughter. Lu chose her yarn very well. It’s the variegated one spun from merino wool and dyed by an indie dyer. Its quality shines through in the finished garment.
Here is a link to my earlier post where I wrote about the pattern.
https://wordpress.com/post/dailyfiberfun.wordpress.com/6380
It was very well written, no errors found. I made a few adjustments to accommodate a lighter weight yarn and adjust the measurements to fit my giftee. This sweater is sized halfway between the size 4 and 6, per pattern instructions. I also chose to make the neckline and button bands wider. It took just about all of 3 balls of 100 gram dk weight yarn. – I’d guess 650 yards.
I had a lot of fun experimenting with a gradual color change as I knit up the sleeves from the cuff. Once I got a color sequence that pleased me, I repeated it on the sweater body.
Even setting in the sleeves went great. I was telling Bill that this sweater ended up so well I should retire from sweater knitting – like an athlete who desires to quit at the top of her game.
Naw, I’m not gonna do that. It would be a shame to disappoint the fans. ; )
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WIP: Child Sweater
It’s been awhile since I showed my progress on a sweater for Lu. In my last post, I shared the fun experience of watching Lu select a skein of yarn.
With her selection in mind, I chose this pattern, available from http://www.redheartco/uk.
Since this last post, I ordered two additional skeins of Elysian yarn in the colorway Ultraviolet. The three I purchased in St Louis didn’t provide enough yardage. Also, I needed a dark shade to balance out the tones of the variegated yarn.
I started by knitting the sleeves. This allows me to test out my color plan.
Encouraged by the way the gradation worked out, I cast on the body of the sweater and knit up to the body/sleeve split.
The project is on pause while I await some measurements of the giftee. But I am pleased so far.
Here is a link to this (very easy) pattern.
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Cast-on Monday (and hopefully cast-off too)
Spring is in the air and on the ground! Although we had frost on the roof this morning, it is warming rapidly. I was in St. Louis for the spring equinox. When I got home last Thursday, there were hundreds of grape hyacinths blooming in the yard and the flower bed.
While in St. Louis, we visited a LYS located in a suburb. We had promised Lu that she could pick out the yarn for her next sweater. Many thanks to the tolerant staff at Yarn Com while the little one whirled through the shop, looking at and picking up every skein that attracted her attention. She carried this on while talking softly to herself. Finally, she triumphently presented me with this hand-painted merino wool skein in her favorite shades of purple and pink.
I paired it with some lavender Cascade 220 and a soft pink blended wool in Elysion by Cascade, quickly and quietly moving to the register before she added to the stack.
The washed swatch is very soft.
On Friday I searched Ravelry and chose a pattern that fit this yarn quite well.
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sweet–simple-cardigan
The other item I’m working is a scarf. It has many attributes, including travel knitting, mindless knitting, stashbuster and quick knit.
The brown yarn is a wool-acrylic blend leftover from Christmas sock making. The gray and white yarns are 100% alpaca. I was given the multi-hued natural colored skein from knitting buddy Kathy. The source of the white is forgotten and unknown.
To keep from being too bored I played around with different striping patterns. To achieve the diagonal stripe, you decrease at the end of the right-side rows and increase at the end of the wrong-side rows. I’ll knit until I run out of the shortest yarn. That could happen today.
Do you have a project in process that is inspired by Springtime?
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Friday Finish: Cheers Shawl
One of the resolutions I made to myself for 2023 was to clear up my backlog of UFOs. Today I celebrate another finish from the knitting category. This shawl, designed by Laura Nelkins….
http://www.nelkindesigns.com/index.cfm/gallery.page/265888.htm
….has been hanging around in its unfinished state for at least three years. I was working the beaded version and got into trouble by choosing beads that were too heavy. Anybody out in blogland work with beads on knitted garments? Let me know if you had any success. For me, the beads were so weighty that the shawl was pulled considerably downward. Sorry, Ms. Nelkin.
Anyway, I still loved the colors and the lace edging. It blocked out to 72 inches.
The beads weren’t totally wasted. I learned how to work them into knitted jewelry, eventually teaching a class on the technique, using up a few beads in the process.
This beadless shawl pairs nicely with my blush-colored boiled wool jacket.
Last time I looked in my craft room closet, there were still three knitting UFOs to finish. I hope to get them marked off the list before summer arrives.
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