3 more days till Spring! I’ve been a busy bee with so many things needing to be done before Spring break arrives next week and much of my time has been spent in the kitchen. I’m getting ready with my Spring Break Arsenal ….how come kids are extra hungry when they aren’t at school? I don’t blame them with trees to be climbed, frisbees to be thrown (almost took out our neighbor’s dog… sorry Roxy!) and general goofing off to be… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Cardigans
Plan B
This is what we saw on one of our bike rides last week…. What a perfect day to ride horses (or bikes)! Time to bring out the spring knitting, don’t you think? I was contemplating what yarn to use, when I looked at these beauties from my recently frogged Dark and Stormy Cardi and thought… Plan B! Same yarn, different pattern! I’ve been wanting to knit the Garter Yoke Cardi for a while now and so as always, I went trolling… Read more »
The Frog Pond
When you look at something over and over and it becomes so very familiar that you miss so many details like, erm…. the huge big mistake that is staring you in the face. Remember when I showed you my Dark and Stormy Cardi and said that I would get to working on it pretty soon? Well, I thought things were going swell and that this week I would really get cracking on this sweater. Yeah, scratch that because my buddy Jocelyn said that… Read more »
k2tog YO ssk YO
The knitting language is full of abbreviations… WIP, FO, YO, K2TOG and many, many more. If you aren’t a knitter, you’d probably think that this was weird and maybe even bordering on rude. Last week, I kept losing my place in the pattern I was working on and had my 11-year-old son, Prithvi, call out the pattern rows to me. After some initial stumbling he really got into it and began a rap of sorts. You see, he thought that all of the YOs (yarn overs) in… Read more »
Tiny Tea Leaves
I’d almost forgotten how exciting it is to knit sweaters for the tiny humans. You cast on, knit for a few days and before you know it you’re casting off — it’s like the sweater knits itself. Now that’s instant gratification! When Kiki announced one day that I had to knit her a blue sweater, my heart sang. I knew immediately that I wanted to knit her a Tiny Tea Leaves since I love my Tea Leaves Cardigan so much. She… Read more »
Off The Needles, On The Needles
I felt like a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders once the Christmas knitting was done. I’m kicking myself for not photographing a couple of pieces before they were wrapped and mailed away. I knit two Porom hats since this pattern has passed the hat-stays-on-my-head test. I used the same yarn but different colors. The finished hats turned out great and the recipients are going to love them, I’m sure. They were so quick on and off the needles that… Read more »
Vintage, Baby!
During our vacation to Vancouver Island this past summer, I cast on for Audrey in Unst thinking that I would get to wear this little cardi over summer dresses. Yeah right, summer is long gone and we’re well into fall and all I can think about is piling on warm woolies and cranking up the heat! Even though I don’t think that I will wear this cardigan anytime soon, I wanted to show you my very own Audrey in Unst, or Audrey in… Read more »
The WIP, It Grows
I’m in complete sweater knitting mode right now. This maybe the reason, no? Being the (mostly) monogamous knitter that I am has helped with the latest project on my needles. Emelie is growing at a steady pace and it won’t be long before I separate for the fronts and back. The construction of this cardi is almost like Audrey. While there are similarities in the two designs, they are quite different and so the knitting has been very enjoyable. Add to that the joy of… Read more »
Next Up
My Bugga! adventure begins now. Bugga! yes folks, that exclamation point is intentional and rightly so. Bugga! is MCN… which means that this yarn is 70% superwash merino, 20% cashmere (ooh la la) and 10% nylon. Warm, durable and luxurious! I never thought that durable and luxurious could ever go together:) I have to say though that even thought it is labeled ‘sock yarn’, it doesn’t feel like sock yarn more like a light sportweight and since I am not… Read more »
Goodbye Sleeve Island
Knitting the sleeves on my Audrey took longer than I expected, waaaay longer! I was stuck on Sleeve Island for so long that funny things were happening to my knitting mojo. But we’re back on track now, my mojo and I. When I’ve knit a couple more rows of the button bands, this cardigan is going to be done! I have yet to track down buttons and get the blocking board out to officially finish, but the knitting’s almost done, hooray! This was… Read more »
