Making it up

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

I just can’t be without some knitting project. I am addicted to yarn and sticks. After finishing the last project, I couldn’t bring myself to work on the Bacardi Cardi just yet. Concentration is needed for the color charts and all those yarns hanging off the sides.

My plan is to knit a top-down, circular yoke, seamless sweater. For. Me. Like this:

Or this:

Using these two colors of yarn that were…wait for it…

…on sale. 654 yards of Debbie Bliss Mia in Mallard (green) and 545 yards of Aqua.

I searched and searched the interwebs and Ravelry for a simple top-down circular, seamless adult-sized sweater. I found the Knitting Fiend Yoke-u-lator and plugged in my numbers. Voila! A simple pattern for the math.

I’m also using Ann Budd’s The Knitter’s Handy Book of Top-Down Sweaters

…and the February Baby Sweater on Two Needles from Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Knitters Almanac because I need more detailed instructions.

My granddaughter’s green sweater is the February Baby Sweater on two needles and the taupe and tan sweater for my grandson is a combination of the February Baby Sweater and the Knitting Fiend calculations.

There is not enough of one color of either so this sweater will be two colors. Not sure if that means evenly spaced stripes, unevenly spaced stripes, color blocks, or something different. I’m just making it up as I go.

Nice pattern

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

Wrong yarn.

I love the leafy border on the Ka’ana shawl/wrap. But the yarn is all wrong for this wrap.

The color is wrong…for me. Not a fan of pastels.

The actual weight of the yarn is just too heavy. It’s a dk weight but it’s cotton. And cotton can be heavy.

I’ll let you know if I use it this summer on cool evenings. If I don’t…

PS – I DID win at yarn chicken!!

I prefer deeper colors

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

I’m not a fan of pastel colors. I like deeper colors. So why were these three 200-yard skeins of pastel yarn in my stash?

Those four little words…it was on sale.

The Ka’ana Shawl by Jennifer Weissman takes 600 yards of worsted weight yarn. This Wool of the Woods – Capri is dk but since it is a shawl, it’s an okay substitute. The yarn is very splitty so I have to be very careful when knitting so I get all the super fine threads that make up the strand.

This cotton shawl will be just the thing to wrap around my shoulders on a summer evening to ward off a bit of a chill while relaxing on the deck or porch with a glass of wine.

Nineteen rows into the leafy lace pattern.

I started on the last ball of yarn and still have fourteen more rows before three rows of garter and bind off. Another game of yarn chicken might be afoot…

I didn’t win at yarn chicken

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

I didn’t win but at least I figured it out before I got too far into the lace motif. The Kindness shawl is off the needles and blocked. I had 48 inches of yarn left after I did one row of the lace motif and an extra row of knitting.