Posted: November 8th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: cascade 220, projects: saddle-shoulder aran cardigan, sweaters, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: aran sweaters, cables, eps, handknitting, knits in progress, knitting, meg swansen, saddle-shoulder aran cardigan | No Comments »
More sweater! This photo is from just after I officially hit the part of the body that involves waist shaping, which is about a third of the way up. I love this sweater so far – the cables are all pretty easy to memorize or ”read” from the knitting, so after the initial bout of charting everything out to learn it for my swatch, I haven’t really had to do much referring to cable charts to know what I’m supposed to do next. It is also not the best photography in the world, as I was sort of rushed when I took this photo, but trust me. This sweater is going to be pretty. It looks a little small as is, when I hold it up to myself, but I keep having to remind myself that Cascade 220 expands a lot when it gets washed, and that my swatch worked out just fine. Already, I can’t wait to finish this and wear it around.
Song of the Entry: Sufjan Stevens – The Dress Looks Nice on You
Posted: November 5th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: cascade 220, projects: saddle-shoulder aran cardigan, sweaters, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: aran sweaters, cables, eps, knitting, meg swansen, nakniswemo, saddle-shoulder aran cardigan, sweaters | 2 Comments »
. . .it’s begun.
I am very, very excited about this sweater, you guys. Bonus points if you can spot the signs in the diagram that give away what I go to school for. ;)
Song of the Entry: Vanessa Hudgens – Hook It Up
Posted: November 2nd, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: cascade 220, projects: saddle-shoulder aran cardigan, sweaters, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: aran, eps, handknitting, hat, knitting, meg swansen, saddle-shoulder aran cardigan, swatch, toque | No Comments »
Alright. So one of the things I’ve decided to do this month – in addition to a lot of schoolwork, which obviously takes priority in the event that I can’t actually find the time to do both – is NaKniSweMo. Basically, it’s a knitting companion project to NaNoWriMo – the idea behind the original is to write a novel (roughly 50,000 words) during the month of November. The idea behind NaKniSweMo is to knit a sweater (roughly 50,000 stitches) during the month of November. I. . .have no idea if this will actually pan out or not.
But anyway. Even if I don’t, the sweater I’m planning on starting this month is the Saddle-Shoulder Aran Cardigan, made internet-famous by brooklyn tweed’s brilliant iteration. The first step, as in anything, is a swatch, which is what this is. The idea behind this kind of sweater is that you knit up a “swatch hat” (I took that suggestion literally, because I like hats) with all of the different cables you’re going to use, wash the swatch, and then use that to plan out the way you’re going to knit the cardigan.
It’s a little daunting having to put this much planning into a project, but I think it’ll work out. Looking at the pattern and reading things to the effect of “put whatever cable you feel like using on the arms” and “knit it until it’s long enough,” I realize that’s pretty much how I like to knit things anyway, so. I’m optimistic.
Song of the Entry: Joshua Radin – Winter
