Who plans their knitting projects?
I definitely just have a cold. It's entered the sneezy, tickley stage. It's got this horrible stealth quality about it, so that I'm fine for a while, and then I'm a sneezing mess for up to fifteen minutes of dripping awfulness.
I've decided that I'd like to knit another sweater before I jump into designing myself a wrap sweater out of all that Araucania Atacama I've got kicking around here. So I bought a sweater for a quarter at garage sales this weekend and am busily pulling it apart. I've got one body piece and one arm down, so I'm halfway there.
Now, what pattern? It's gray worsted-weight cotton, but I have another one that's olivey forest green chunky weight cotton to destroy. I'm really looking forward to working with big needles. You know, size 8. Absolutely huge after Thermal (which I still need to take pictures of).
I've found these on Ravelry:
DROPS 73-24 Wrap Cardigan -- pattern, Flickr (That's a yarn substitution. She didn't use a smooth yarn like the one suggested.)
The Slim Hoodie from Knit.1, Fall 2007 -- Flickr.I actually don't know if I have enough yarn for this. It's also very mindless. I think I need something more than that after a two rounds of k2p2 ribbing, knit a row, purl a row, ad nauseum. But I like the toggles.
Cardigan Come -- Pattern, Flickr. Problem: It only goes up to a size medium, and it does not actually say what the measurements for that are, and I also can't find it on the website. Crazy Germans and their site design!
Croisette Wrap-around Cardigan -- Found this just poking around the Lana Grossa website. Again it only goes up to a medium, but looking at the schematic, I'm pretty sure it would fit.
ETA: I forgot a pattern. Bella Pacquita by Marnie MacLean. (Pattern) Mad cute, no?
Back to your regularly scheduled post:
I also really like this sweater from the aforementioned issue of Knit.1, but that much wool is out of my budget right now. Le sigh! Stupid wedding!
That issue of Knit.1 is absolutely bizarre, by the way. It's got a couple of really cute patterns with the typical Vogue photoshoot style ("My concept for this is sweaters . . . and underwear."), some more catalogue-y photoshoots (the diagonal sweater up there), and then some real fug. Case in point. Whaaaaaat? I'm not even sure that's the ugliest one, either.
Opinions? Other pattern recommendations? I'm apparently in wrap sweater mode, so if anyone has some ideas of patterns that would work with cotton, that would be wonderful.
I've decided that I'd like to knit another sweater before I jump into designing myself a wrap sweater out of all that Araucania Atacama I've got kicking around here. So I bought a sweater for a quarter at garage sales this weekend and am busily pulling it apart. I've got one body piece and one arm down, so I'm halfway there.
Now, what pattern? It's gray worsted-weight cotton, but I have another one that's olivey forest green chunky weight cotton to destroy. I'm really looking forward to working with big needles. You know, size 8. Absolutely huge after Thermal (which I still need to take pictures of).
I've found these on Ravelry:
DROPS 73-24 Wrap Cardigan -- pattern, Flickr (That's a yarn substitution. She didn't use a smooth yarn like the one suggested.)
The Slim Hoodie from Knit.1, Fall 2007 -- Flickr.I actually don't know if I have enough yarn for this. It's also very mindless. I think I need something more than that after a two rounds of k2p2 ribbing, knit a row, purl a row, ad nauseum. But I like the toggles.
Cardigan Come -- Pattern, Flickr. Problem: It only goes up to a size medium, and it does not actually say what the measurements for that are, and I also can't find it on the website. Crazy Germans and their site design!
Croisette Wrap-around Cardigan -- Found this just poking around the Lana Grossa website. Again it only goes up to a medium, but looking at the schematic, I'm pretty sure it would fit.
ETA: I forgot a pattern. Bella Pacquita by Marnie MacLean. (Pattern) Mad cute, no?
Back to your regularly scheduled post:
I also really like this sweater from the aforementioned issue of Knit.1, but that much wool is out of my budget right now. Le sigh! Stupid wedding!
That issue of Knit.1 is absolutely bizarre, by the way. It's got a couple of really cute patterns with the typical Vogue photoshoot style ("My concept for this is sweaters . . . and underwear."), some more catalogue-y photoshoots (the diagonal sweater up there), and then some real fug. Case in point. Whaaaaaat? I'm not even sure that's the ugliest one, either.
Opinions? Other pattern recommendations? I'm apparently in wrap sweater mode, so if anyone has some ideas of patterns that would work with cotton, that would be wonderful.