Posted: November 20th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: cascade 220, projects: saddle-shoulder aran cardigan, sweaters, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: aran, knits in progress, knitting, meg swansen, nakniswemo, saddle-shoulder aran cardigan, sweater | No Comments »
As if a week could go by without another progress report on my NaKniSweMo. I have officially achieved one entire sleeve. (People keep saying stuff like “ooh, sleeves go so quickly!” This is a bunch of dirty lies. They go quickly relative to the sweater body, but not quickly in general. This is a difficult concept to get my head around.) That’s one out of two finished sleeves, which means I still need to knit Sleeve 2 and the yoke and then steek it and pick up the button band, and. . .basically, I am half-resigned to not finishing it exactly in November. That is no longer the point.
The point is, the weather outside is frightful, and I’d like something warm and sheepy and cable-y to keep me warm, like, yesterday.
(Well. The point is also that there are lots of other awesome things I want to knit and can’t start until I finish this sweater, but that is a post for another day.)
Song of the Entry: Snow Patrol – Hands Open
Posted: November 13th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: cascade 220, projects: saddle-shoulder aran cardigan, sweaters, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: eps, knitting, meg swansen, nakniswemo, photography, saddle-shoulder aran cardigan, sleeve, sweaters | 1 Comment »
One of these things is not like the other.
I’ve finally – finally – finished the body of my NaKniSweMo sweater, and am starting in on the sleeves. The way this cardigan is constructed, I knit the body and sleeves separately in the round, join them together for the yoke (that is the shoulder-bit of the sweater, non-knitters) and do something interesting and magical that turns it into a sweater. I. . .have not really read that far ahead in the pattern yet, as I prefer to focus on the here and now when I’m working on a big project. And the here and now, in this case, is sleeves.
Well, just one sleeve for now, but whatever. I find it exciting.
Song of the Entry: Taylor Swift – Forever & Always
Posted: November 10th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: cascade 220, projects: saddle-shoulder aran cardigan, sweaters, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: aran, handknit, knits in progress, knitting, meg swansen, nakniswemo, saddle-shoulder aran cardigan | No Comments »
I am still knitting away on the body of my sweater, which is always the most tedious part – especially since, despite the fact that I am pretty short, I like my sweaters longer in the body – the goal here is 43 cm/17 inches. I am already at the point in knitting where I am eager to get done because I want to wear this sweater. (This is patently ridiculous, as fall has apparently reversed itself and it is now hovering around 10 degrees in the afternoon, which is too hot for wool, but hopefully global climate changed hasn’t deep-sixed Canadian winters just yet.
Only eighteen more centimetres to go.
Song of the Entry: High School Musical 3 – Just Wanna Be With You
