more acer

This cardigan and I were on a break for a while, because I’ve had a pretty time-consuming few weeks. But this week, at knit night, I brought it along, and now our relationship is as strong as ever.

I’m at the part of the body where it’s time to divide for the backs and front, and still totally, totally in love with this sweater. The cable pattern is mesmerizing, and this yarn is just so cool. It’s still impossible to photograph – I think I’ve at least got the shade of blue-green right, but it’s so much darker and richer than these photos are showing. (The one up top is closest.)

Also, the weather is fast approaching real autumn, and now I’m making apple cheddar scones and getting super excited to wear this, as well. (Also also, speaking of wearing sweaters – my purple hoodie has been finished for weeks now, but I finally got around to weaving in the ends and taking some pictures. Expect that in the next few days.)

sweaters = work life balance

So even though my life is keeping me on my toes, now that fall TV has started up again, I’m finding it much easier to find time to knit. We will ignore what this says about my priorities – the point is, I’m much farther along on my new cardigan, and super excited about it.

I find the alternating cables really fun, and this pattern is one that’s extraordinarily easy to memorize. After the first repeat, I didn’t need to look at the chart at all, except to keep track of whether or not I was on a cable row.

I also had dinner with Laura a couple of days ago, near Koreatown, and while I was waiting for her I wandered down the street to see if I could pick up some of the snacks I used to love while I was living there. And then I had a bit of fun playing with cookies and my macro lens.

less spinning, more sweatering

I have yet to learn how to use my wheel, unfortunately. However, I started this cardigan a week ago, and it’s quietly becoming my new favourite thing to knit. This is Bellevue (a name which, as an aside, is kind of rad. My grandparents used to live on a Bellevue Ave!), in Malabrigo Sock. I’m enjoying the yarn – it’s a little finer fingering-weight than I usually go for, but it’s nice and soft like Malabrigo tends to be, and the colour is lovely. Good blues always get extra points in my books. This yarn is also plied, so I have high hopes that it won’t be quite as felty as the Malbrigo singles I’ve worked with in the past.

The lace portion at the bottom of the body I found a bit fussy – I don’t know why, because I’m used to knitting lace on hundreds of stitches in fingering-weight yarn, and the lace pattern is actually really easy to memorize, but I guess doing it while I was in “sweater mode” instead of “shawl mode” made it harder. (Also, it’s been brought to my attention that I did the decreases on the purl side wrong, because I’m bad at reading – Laura’s version of this lace is much, much neater.) Now that it’s done, though, I really like the look of it.