Bayerische!
Bayerische 5
Originally uploaded by ClockworkTomato. I've been meaning to post some pics of these, now that the lovely recipient has them safely on her own feet.
I knitted up Bayerische for faecat's Holiday Extravaganza 2007 gift, and I'm ridiculously proud of them!
Knitted in Lang's Jawoll on size 000 (wee tiny and I loved every minute of it) needles. Also, I adore this yarn and I actually squee'd out loud when I found the tiny roll of reinforcement yarn inside as I was winding it on my ball winder. It was like a hidden prize inside the skein!
I loved knitting these. Yes, they were tedious, but there was a lot of satisfaction in each of those tiny cables, and I took away a very, very important skill -- cable knitting without a cable needle! My future cabling projects will go so much more quickly now that I trust my ability to quickly swap around the order of the stitches without fumbling with a third needle. I guess it's moderately unfortunate, since I do have a nice collection of cable needles and I did just buy a lovely set of the Harmony cable needles from Knitpicks, but I'm sure they'll still find their uses in some of the larger cable crosses I'll see in my knitting future!
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Next on my list is finishing up my first sweater, i.e., this familiar face:
Five hood rows to go, then blocking and seaming!