This scarf was made from three balls of Schulana Merino Superlight. This
yarn is very soft and cushy, a pleasure to work with. The pattern is "Cabled
& Ribbed Scarf" written by local knitter Marie Haigh. It features cabling on
one side and a plain 2×2 rib on the reverse. The pattern can be found here:
stores.lulu.com/knittedgems
Joy
This scarf was made from three balls of Schulana Merino Superlight. This
yarn is very soft and cushy, a pleasure to work with. The pattern is "Cabled
& Ribbed Scarf" written by local knitter Marie Haigh. It features cabling on
one side and a plain 2×2 rib on the reverse. The pattern can be found here:
stores.lulu.com/knittedgems
Joy
Wow, I must have sounded terrible last week. Lots of people checked up on me to be sure I wasn’t going to jump off a cliff or something. Don’t worry, everything’s better this week – really, it was just a down day. Getting back to work cheered me right up!
I finished this nice sweater in Reynolds’ Rapture, a beautiful silk & wool blend that is one of their Great American yarns.
Rapture Cable & Lace Sweater
It’s in a really lovely shade of taupe and I love the way the details are so defined. I’ve made this sweater in a number of yarns, it’s from an old Classio Elite booklet and was designed for their La Gran mohair. Very pretty in mohair, but you could scarcely see the cables and lace. Here’s a detail of the bottom border:
Detail, Cable & Lace Cardigan
It’s very pretty, but I have promised myself – no more sweaters for at least 2 weeks. I’m only doing little projects – fussy little things that take a lot of time and really don’t do much for the shop but that I just drool over because it’s hard for me to justify the time spent on them. I made gorgeous lace-edged mittens in dark purple Ambrosia – as the name implies, it’s a delicious blend of baby alpaca, silk and cashmere. They were knit on size 1’s at 7 st per inch. Ha, ha, ha, ha! (loony laugh) The mittens were from Homespun, Handknit which is full of great small projects. There are loads of books and magazines full of small projects out right now, I’m having a problem keeping them in stock. Maybe because the bookstore chains have quit stocking many knitting books – I notice the area dedicated to them getting smaller and smaller every time I go.
Here are some lovely completed customer projects, and thanks to everyone who brought them in:
From Tracee Yawger, this beautiful entrelac scarf done in Zauberball. I love these colors. She didn’t want the picture taken because it hadn’t been blocked, but I know as soon as it’s blocked, it will constantly be around someone’s neck and not available for a photo:
Zauberball Entrelac Scarf
Carol Gerber finished this lovelyand soft ribbed scarf in Mille Colori Big. It has the perfect colors to wear with her coat that is a rather sedate taupe on the outside and a wild fuzzy orange on the inside. Classy but fun, just like Carol!
Mille Colori Scarf
And Carol Sullivan made this really neat couch cover for a friend who has a bunch of spoiled dogs – which of course I don’t at all understand. She needed something washable, dark and huge. Carol used Encore and a pattern from the Baby Blanket Booklet that doubled the yarn, so she wouldn’t go nuts knitting mile after mile of stockinette stitch and blended two colors very nicely. I think it’s something like 90″ long!
Encore Couch Cover
Amy Wall and her mother Gloria Moser are taking Janet’s top down sweater class (btw. Happy birthday, Janet, and thanks, Jim, for the pumpkin cake – so incredibly delicious!) and Amy wore this beautiful sweater to class this past weekend.
Amy in Gloria's Sweater
Gloria made it from a beautiful heathered teal in Suri Merino, a luscious alpaca/merino blend. The knitting is wonderful, and although it’s hard to see in the photo, it’s got rolled lapels and an allover textured stitch. You would never know it was a failure, would you? Gloria made it for herself and it was too small, so Amy got it by default – lucky! Janet’s tips on measuring and sizing sweaters will make sure that won’t happen again.
And here is this week’s Belle of the Blog – and I can’t believe I’ve forgotten her name! She’s the granddaughter of Carol Slifka, who made this pretty little shrug for her. She was posed very beautifully – don’t you love the hands in the pockets? very stylish! - and was so patient and well-behaved in the shop! Isn’t she the sweetest?
Carol Slifka's Grand in Shrug
Oops, there goes the dryer buzzer. Yesterday was beautiful and I got a lot of outdoor stuff done, plus a good long walk for the boys, who look very spiffy in their new haircuts. Today is rainy and cool and aside from grocery shopping and laundry, I’m going to spend it knitting and listening to an audiobook. I’m just starting on Anne Perry’s historical mysteries about Inspector Monk, set in early Victorian England. I love listening to British accents, and could happily listen to the narrator of the these books (Davina Porter) read my Subaru’s owner’s manual.
Have a lovely Halloween if you get into that kind of thing. I have to say it’s my least favorite “holiday” but at least it means that my favorite – Thanksgiving – is on the way.
See you soon!
Trish
Another beautiful day, but frankly, a day when I could barely pull myself together to get out of bed. I don’t get down too often, but today was just one of those days. Nothing I did seemed worthwhile, and if I could have run away completely, I would have. Tomorrow will be better but I’ll have to write off this lovely day.
Carol Whitcraft test-knit my Swing Jacket pattern and did a wonderful job:
Bonbori Swing jacket
The pattern is revised and ready for use (I think – I revised it today, and nothing I did today is reliable, so I’ll check again, I promise.) The yarn in Noro’s chunky Bonbori – really lightweight and wonderful to wear.
Check out David’s sweater (yes, another one!!) below – too amazing.
Karen Walter’s Fair Isle Beret class was this weekend – everyone knit frantically and finished in the time allotted. Here are two examples of finished hats – still unblocked but very cute nonetheless:
Ann Kennedy's Beret
Scarface modeling Lynda Slovitsky's beret
And Patti Barber is almost done with this great shawl with a seasonal theme for October:
Patti Barber's Bat shawl
She got the pattern from the AntiCraft’s website, just google Bat Shawl.
And here’s my sweet Jettie, who is the Belle of the Blog this week. Unlike me, when something goes all sour for her, she makes lemonade, or in this case, a vest with matching arm warmers. Here’s her comment:
“This sweater project was almost a disaster-turned out with the sleeves too tight and arm holes too large. I do not know why – everyone else who knitted it had excellent results. anyway I love the yarn and made the sweater into a vest by adding ribbing to the sleeve holes( after removing the sleeves which I had crammed into the holes) and made the sleeves into arm /hand warmers by adding ribbing to the shoulder end- the sleeve caps are great elbow cushioners!!
I am wearing this at work today and have received beaucoup de complements!!!”
Jettie's Project Save
Such a positive response to a problem, right? Thanks to Jettie’s husband Michael for sending the photo – I needed a lift today!
See you soon…
Trish
hi trish
just finished this sweater for myself…seamless…my favourite kind…
cya soon
Dave Ritz
