Bad Knitter...

I have a finished sweater, but it's not washed and blocked yet... and I wore it ALL OVER Europe!!!

Wanna see my Featherweight?


Ok, maybe I should go wash it so I can wear it a little more proudly... and not have to unroll the collar to show people what it "really looks like".

Off to find the wool wash!

Shrugigan

I've been working on the Whisper Cardigan from the Spring 09 Interweave Knits... and I adore it like no other project.



But you know what?

It's not really a cardigan.

It's kind of half-cardigan, and half-shrug. It's a shrugigan.

I've already knit the shrug bit... starting at one sleeve in the round, across the back (flat), and then the other sleeve. I've picked up an infinite number of stitches (ask me how long that took!) and now I'm knitting ribbing around the whole thing. Once I've got 3 inches of ribbing, I'll knit the rest of the back (the bottom half), and the front panels.



It really is a fascinating construction, and I am learning a ton from this process.

However . . .

It's not a cardigan.



(Pssst... Cobbalicious, this update's for you!)

A Little Tube of Wool . . .

Following in Amy's footsteps, I'm knitting a tube in the fingering-weight wool I picked up from Stoddart Farms at the Brickworks last summer. It's a long-term project that I mainly work on watching TV at the boy's house... therefore it's actually given me license to cast on more than one project at a time!

On the needles:
1) This tube, which will one day become a scarf...



2) The manos silk blend neckwarmer in the Topographie pattern to match my new hat, which was debuted all around New York this weekend.



3) The Whisper cardigan from the Spring 2009 Interweave, in Malabrigo Lace. Obviously this is the 'at home' knitting, while everything else is very portable. Let me knit more than the first two rows on this, and then I'll get you more photos!

Malabrigo Goodness

It's soft, it's drapey, it's the most gorgeous semi-solid tealy blue. What more could a girl ask for?

I'm using Malabrigo Lace in Bobby Blue to knit up the Whisper Cardigan from Interweave Spring 2009.

Yesterday was spent winding 940 yards of lace by hand, and doing a gauge swatch. I've decided on 4.5mm needles as the largest size, and of course don't have long enough circular needles in my stash (16" won't quite substitute for 12"... I use nice long ones and magic loop). What's a girl to do but go needle shopping?