Pattern: My own Size: 35″ bust, 14.5″ to underarm on body, 14″ shoulder to shoulder, 18″ to underarm on sleeve, 8″ armscye Yarn: Beaverslide Dry Goods Light Sportweight (90 percent Beaverslide merino wool, 10 percent kid mohair; 440 yds per 4 oz hank), three skeins of Mink Heather and one skein of Chokecherry Heather Yardage: [...]
Archives for 2007 Collection
Blocked and Basted
Let the seaming begin! I have the distinct impression that the sleeve caps are going to give me fits.
Faithful
I’ve finished the back of the herringbone sweater. That makes three pieces down and one piece to go. Here they are all laid out: It’s a funny sort of accomplishment, finishing the third piece of a sweater. It’s satisfying, but it’s also something of a letdown, since you can’t do much of anything with three [...]
Finished Object: Middlebury Cardigan
The second sleeve for the herringbone sweater progresses slowly. Meanwhile, my mom sent me some buttons from Portland that she thought might work out for the Middlebury cardigan, and they are just the thing. Mom saves the day again! At last, the finished Middlebury cardigan! It is super-comfy. The Rescue Buttons are purple and are [...]
A Sleeve, a Sleeve!
See how I tried to make that exciting? I fear that it won’t work. I spent nine days knitting a sleeve, and now the sleeve is done, and it’s about as exciting as you would expect. It came out exactly the size I intended for it to come out. I am fond of it. That’s [...]
We Have a Winner
The winner of the Ugly Slipper Contest, who will receive these beauties here . . . Prize Slippers . . . is Jeni! Jeni might strike some of you as a dark horse candidate for the slippers, since she snuck her entry in at the end, and she didn’t write a poem. But Jeni was [...]
More of the Same
The good news I found some buttons that I think will work for my cardigan. I ordered them from Earthenwood Studios; you can look at them here. I chose the pill shape, the berryleaf pattern, and the amethyst color. I think the color is just the right purpley-brown to work with the Middlebury sweater. The [...]
Good News and Bad News
The good news Progress on the Middlebury sweater continues apace. I got one sleeve finished and sewn in, the other one about two-thirds knit, and I completed the button bands and collar, too. It’s looking mighty fine, if I do say so myself. Middlebury sweater with one sleeve The bad news I think the sleeve [...]
The Safety Pin Stage
Since I last posted, I’ve finished the back and left front of the Middlebury cardigan, so the time came to pin it together to see how it fits. These shots are courtesy of my new camera, a birthday gift from my parents. It has utterly transformed for the better my taking-pictures-of-knitwear process. It focuses! It [...]
Mid-Middlebury
I’ve been knitting away on my Middlebury sweater, which you may recall temporarily stumped me a while back with its tendency to scrunch up on the needles. I needed to figure out whether it would hold a lengthwise blocking or whether I had to make it longer to compensate for its desire to be scrunched [...]