Since putting down my granny square project for a much-needed pause (I’ll get to those borders and assembly in due course), I’ve found myself with a bit of knitting ADD. Or possibly whiplash from having focussed on such a large project for such an amount of time…Or another metaphor which I have yet to come up with. Probably there are a lot more of those out there! Essentially I’ve been doing the knitting things, just with a bit of lack of focus.
But, I have been continuing with the knitting tasks in progress, and remembering the knitting that I have been up to, and things continue and that is all good.
The turquoise lace panel cardigan I’ve been working on now has a body and 1.5 sleeves, which is pretty great – I had rather hoped I’d be father along with it now than I am, but actually this means I am about half a sleeve away from joining for the yoke, and when you’re at the yoke on a bottom-up seamless sweater you are basically done, so that is fantastic. (At some point it’s also going to need a name, and a pattern write-up, so more thought-thinking ahead on that.)
I have also done a bit of playing with cables in the last few weeks, preparing for the class I taught last weekend at the Knitter’s Frolic here in Toronto. (It was all about cables and working beyond the basic stitches, and it was fun and I will definitely teach it again).
The side effect, of course, is that in playing with cables even just for the exercise of it, I got thinking about other things to do with cables, and now I think I may just spend my summer knitting cables all the time. I think having a crochet-filled winter stole some of my beloved cable knitting time from me and now my brain wants that fixed! Which, really, I am totally okay with fixing that.
Also, not for nothing, but you know what else I did? I discovered a pair of socks that I’d finished back in October except for the finishing. So I sewed up the toes and wove in the ends on those suckers. New/old pair of Jaywalkers, here we are.
I hope you’re discovering some new knitting adventures this week, even if they are not so much new as old things being rediscovered – those can be new adventures too.
Happy Monday!
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Project: new sweater design by me
Yarn: Dragonfly Fibers Damsel, in ‘mermaid’ blue
Project: cable swatches for a future project
Yarn: Tanis Fiber Arts Green Label Aran, in ‘peacock’ blue
Project: Jaywalker socks
Yarn: Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock, in ‘hermosa’
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Knitting ADD is a good description for what happens between projects for me as well!
love the look of that lace sweater design 🙂
Pretty sweater! Also, instant socks are the best!
My vote is in for the turquoise lace panel cardigan! Looks interesting and love
that color.
The lace panel in your turquoise sweater made me think of a waterfall I saw as a teenager: Multnomah, I think, out in Washington state. Lovely!
Multnomah Falls is in Oregon. And definitely lovely — as are Bridal Veil Falls, Horsetail Falls, Fairy Falls, and all the 76 other rivulets, cascades, and thunderers along the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge.
In fact, a book of knitted lace patterns, each based on one of the iconic falls, sounds to me like a zillion-seller! Here’s a link to a photo of Fairy Falls, just to get you started! http://www.waterfallsnorthwest.com/nws/image_new.php?num=4054
So sad I had to miss your class at the Frolic!
Yay! That’s like finding a $20 bill in the washer!
Love the sweater
Cables are fun and these cables are beautiful!