I’ve been doing a little knitting on the Inferior Cardigan.
The gaterstitch at the raglan sleeves is made by making a p2tog as the decrease on both sides. The Inferior sleeves came out the same size as the Perfect Sleeves! The only difference so far is that the cuffs are smaller/tighter. I think Great Gran used the cuffs from the other pattern: there is no change in needle size when you are finished with ribbing. I have decided to run with the smaller needle size; ribbing has been known to stretch out. Both sleeves are finished and I have made the band for the back of the sweater. The Inferior Cardigan should look like this in no time:
Naturally, the picture with the smirk came out beautifully. Look how many blooms that bush has had!
I mailed our red scarves yesterday.
Great Gran’s are the furry ones! They are so fun.
The Consensus has been to go with the Loden yarn for my Bloomin’ Socks, so I am ready to get started. The first step is to master is the method of casting on that the designer wants me to use. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t care and would cast on however I wanted, but the tops of the socks in the picture are so neat and clean that I am compelled make mine Exactly the Same. I am going to practice a bit, the diagram of the cast on shows yarn wrapped around lots of fingers. Too many fingers. This Concerns me.
I Forgot to Mention
I have been working my way through the blogs of the entire list of Olympic Knitters (I’m on the “Ks”). I don’t know why. Some perverse desire seizes me every time I see a list of links like that. As I go through, I am NOT NOT NOT looking at their “Blogs I Read” lists – that is just too much Kevin Bacon for me. But anyway.
I have a short list in my side bar of blogs that I read all the time. It grows and changes depending upon a number of variables. But I have an MUCH longer list of bookmarked blogs. More than any one person can read in a week. Unless, of course, they have insomnia. Which I do not. I’ve always felt bad about my neglected bookmarks, and every now and then I take a day to go through all of them – you can’t just read a few, the others get jealous – and skim what all has happened in the past couple days. I am not satisfied with this and the all day blog-a-thon makes me crazy. So M has written me A Script. A Script that selects a random batch of blogs from my bookmarks each week and lists them conveniently in my side bar. I feel so liberated.
I usually cheat on the cast on methods too! : )
You know, I have the same issue with all those wonderful blogs… do these people EVER Sleep??
Your sweater looks great – and cute photo of you.
there aren’t enough hours in the day to read all the cool blogs. !
Hi, I’m a knitter from Fairhope. Wanted to let you know that the knit store that was in town, now in Spanish Fort, is going out of buisness, and everythings 1/2 off. So much for my yarn diet. 5 skeins cherry tree hill merino, la luz silk, jo sharp (10) balls, needles, books, etc..We should meet and knit sometime!
For some reason, it would’nt let me use my email, but here it is grahams36532@hotmail
Hi Emily! what a cute picture of you, and of the cardigan!
Catching up on blogs is nearly impossible. Just when you think you do – there are like 70 new updates. It is good to see such excitement about knitting 😉
Love the sweater. It’s a bit different from Twist . I like the yarn you picked out—matches perfectly.
Still working away on the Retro sweater.
Happy Knitting!
Traci
Seriously, I have lost weeks worth of time that could have been spent knitting reading knitting blogs in the past year alone.
I live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the burbs. There are more yarn shops here than there are in neighboring Philadelphia. Nine is not counting the JoAnn, AC Moore, and Michaels. What’s even better? They ALL have their own diverse stocks and personalities.
oooh! pretty sweater, it looks great on you. i like the scarves too! 🙂
oooh! pretty sweater, it looks great on you. i like the scarves too! 🙂
I am in awe of your long socks!
How many red scarves did you mail?
The sweater looks beautiful!!!! I love it!
Great job on the sweater and I am so happy to put a face with the blog. I like the idea of rotating blog favorites. There are SO many I read and few I link to. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?
Ooh. Love all the sox, and everything else too! Especially the over the knee socks. Beautiful.