Even though the weather hasn’t got the news, we’re heading into fall: crisp air, gorgeous colors and cool temps. It’s a dream here on the US east coast where summer is holding on for at least another month.
Whether you’re knitting or crocheting for cold weather to come or are ready to pack up winter clothes for the season, let us know what’s on your needles or hooks. It’s always inspirational for us.
It’s certainly cooled off here. There will be no opportunity to wear the summer cardigan ive been making until next year. After swatchin, dithering, knitting, frogging and swatching again I finished the folded hem yesterday. Still swatching and dithering on the buttonband.
Just to have a change, yesterday i decided to try out a bit of lace. Fingering weight bamboo cotton which is super slippery and very hard to keep from flying off the needles. It feels so fiddly but when worked up it looks much chunkier and not nearly as delicate as i had imagined. The traditional Shetland lace knitters had yarn finer than this, how did they do it???!
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What a gorgeous start!
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I do not have any thing on my needles yet. I am saving it for our trip to Va. for Christmas. Then I will have something to work on while he is driving.
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Your work is so amazing. Have we seen a pic of your summer sweater you’ve been working on. Is it possible to see a glimpse of it, even though you’ve not finished it yet
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You’re too kind. The summer cardigan isn’t much to see, it’s just a plain black stockinette cardigan. It doesn’t sound summery being black but where i am there are only a few days when a sweater isn’t needed. I posted a pic of the finished body with sleeves last month.
Several dozen swatches later I think I’m almost ready to knit the buttonband. I have one more test to do. I have knitted and frogged many meters of band and I’m eager to get on with the final one.