My Soay Cardi c’est fini! This was my entry to MadMay2012 (Madelinetosh Madness). I used Tosh Pashmina, my first time knitting with this yarn and it is pure buttah!! I wanted to use this yarn for a totally different pattern, but as it sat in my yarn bin, my pattern choice changed many times. I’m glad I finally chose this design because I could customize it. I love that it is feminine with the bits of lace and the silk content… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Cardigans
Hiyadoin’
Hi! Hiyadoin’? I’m doing great, thanks for asking 🙂 We were just away at The Emerald City visiting family and while we were there, look at what we stuffed our faces with! If you’re ever in Seattle, you gotta eat at The Crab Pot. The mess is definitely worth it! You should also definitely check out this studio. We were able to chat with the artist, David Smith, and watch him work on a very interesting piece of glass work. As a… Read more »
Oh Pickles!
I’ve been knitting the Ranger sweater for my son, Prithvi, for a while now and despite some gauge checks that had to be done mid knitting and the fact that he seems to be growing faster than I can knit, I was progressing at a steady clip on this project. I joined the sleeves to the body of the sweater and kept making my way up the yoke decreases when I went to my bag of Malabrigo Rios to pick out… Read more »
Mystery Revealed
The mystery sweater knit-a-long that I have been a part of is done! It looks quite adorable – poofy sleeves and all! Since this year’s spring is warmer than normal for most folks, the majority of knit-alongers decided to knit short sleeves on their sweaters. I, on the other hand, opted to follow the pattern for long sleeves so that Kirtana could get some use out of it later this year too. The longer sleeves provided for some interesting knitting and… Read more »
It’s All A Mystery
Even though I haven’t been blogging all that much lately, I have been knitting and I’ve got three projects going. One of them is a mystery knit-along ♥ This pattern is for a child’s sweater by the very talented, Elena Nodel. The members of this mystery knit-along or MKAL get emailed instructions in pieces or “clues”. Here’s my progress with Clue #1 done from a couple days ago… Soon, I was working my way through Clue #2 and happy that I was… Read more »
Garter Yoke Cardigan
When you’re knitting with lovely yarn in a fabulous color, miles of plain stockinette or garter stitch don’t seem tedious at all. Rows and rows of knits and purls stacked on top of one another are simply enjoyable, until you get to…. you guessed right… the sleeves!!! The Garter Yoke Cardi became my go to project to bring to Knit Nite every Monday and for months it seemed like I was knitting and knitting but just wasn’t moving ahead. Then one… Read more »
The Fine Print
I’ve been knitting away on the sweater for my son whenever I get a few moments. For all you moms out there with young children, you know how those free minutes are few and far between, right?? Anyway, I sort of wrapped the work in progress around his torso yesterday evening and I realized that this sweater isn’t going to fit him unless I blocked the life out of it once I’m done. And the chances of it fitting then….. Read more »
Snow, Yeah!
As promised, we got our winter wonderland 🙂 The cuteness!! Despite explaining to Prithvi that 2 cm of snow doesn’t count for the school distric calling it a “snow day”, he was up really, really early this morning watching the local news to see if his wish would come true. Nope, no snow day today! Snow makes everything so magical and yesterday’s sunset can bear witness to that fact. The first thing Kiki asked me this morning was if we had any… Read more »
Purging
How has your new year been so far? All 13 days of it? Have you been organizing and clearing out all the clutter? This is something I do every time the new year rolls in. Once the Christmas decorations are packed away, the organizing bug bites me hard for a few days. It really helps that every store seems to have their boxes and bins and baskets on sale right now! This year, I organized my yarn stash too and… Read more »
Mustard Cables
New threads for the Little Miss When I first saw this yarn, I fell in love with the color. I knew immediately that I wanted to knit a cabled sweater with a bit of chic thrown in. “Functional and fun” was what I had in mind. I love this little sweater even though it’s got a few boo-boo’s (cough..mis-crossed-cables-tight-sleeves..cough, cough!!) I used Cascade 220 Heathers for this sweater and I’ve already cast on for another one, this time using Ultra Alpaca… Read more »
