Knitting Progress

Knitting has been happening around here too, even though it's 8,000 degrees outside. I've been working on this sweater for my sister. We have a deal worked out where I knit her a sweater and she makes me a nativity set for Christmas. She asked for a beachy white sweater. I'm making this one up as I go along, and I'm not sure she'll like it. We'll see when it's all done. Right now, I'm up to the armpits. It's knit in a merino blend because my sister has been known to wash and dry wool sweaters. Besides, who wants a sweater that they have to take special care of? There will be a deep v-neck and a big hood. You can just see the beginnings of the neck shaping now. I'm making it kind of long-it should hit mid hip. That way it'll feel more relaxed and beachy (do you actually know anyone who wears a sweater on the beach?)







I'm also working on the slippers pattern from Knit 2 Together. There are a lot of beautiful patterns in this book, but a lot of them call for expensive yarn, so I'm going to work up to them slowly. The slippers only need a little bit of yarn. The pattern wants three strands of wool held toegther and a contrasting color for the top, but I'm changing it up a little. I'm holding two different colors together the whole way. I think it will look cool once it's felted. Here it is all knitted, pre-felting. When I get the other one knitted, I'll felt them (Katie-help!) and show you how it looks.



Holding more than one strand of yarn at a time can be just too tempting for my evil cats, so I use this ingenious box Katie made for my birthday. You put the yarn inside and thread it through the grommets in the front.



The yarn stays all neat and uneaten while you knit. It's also a good place to stash unfinished projects when people are coming over in ten minutes and you're wearing your pajamas and the sink is full.