Author: Laura

Title courtesy of the brillant and beautiful Cari. You know how I wasn’t going to buy yarn?

Yeah…no.

I swear I didn’t mean to copy Kelly, but you know what they say about great minds ;). Anyway, I got 5 skeins of Silk Garden, two of Jawoll cotton sock yarn, and a copy of last fall’s Phildar Tendances, all at 30% off. MMM, silk garden.

I think I may have left one behind. And now that I’ve pretty much decided that I want to make a top-down cardi, I may have to go back and get it tomorrow. I should call ahead though, just to make sure that there is actually one left…

I may have also bought yarn from Camilla Valley Farm for the Gibson Girl pullover and some summer tops. Oops.

Ahem. Anyway, I’ve been working on the Corset Pullover and it’s coming along nicely.

My competitive side wants to finish the sweater before Cari. But that’s not nice! I really must try to not think about that. Anyway, the lengthening seems to be working out, but the real test will come when I machine wash this baby.

It’s coming…the time when I change from wool sweaters to cotton ones!

Pattern: “Unisex Knock-Around Cashmere Pullover” from Weekend Knitting
Yarn: Berroco Pronto Print in “Cobble Hill”, about 13 skeins (pattern says 10 of yarn of the same yardage)
Needles: US 10.5 Denises
Started: March 2, 2005
Finished: March 20, 2005

It’s really quite comfy. See the collar, though? It looks cool laying flat, but it doesn’t really stand up or anything when it’s worn. Plus one side is pointier than the other and it kind of bugs me. So it’ll look more like this:

I picked up a zipper from Fabricland today. So we’ll see when I get around to putting it in the Lotech…meanwhile, here’s what I’m working on:

Cozy and the Corset Pullover. I think I’ll try to make some headway on the Corset Pullover – I’m lengthening it as well as compensating for the shrinkage factor. Could be interesting!

Well, I finished up the Not-Cashmere Pullover..

…as well as the Lotech sweat – you can’t really see, but there’s reverse st st front bands. I’ll pick up a zipper tomorrow and hopefully put it in, and then it’ll really be done.

Both are now in the washing machine and will be machine dried (at least partially) as well – modelled pictures tomorrow, I hope!

Now I can get to some new projects! I believe the Corset Pullover will be up next, as well as perhaps a t-shirt out of Elann Esprit for the stockinette project. I think I’ll work on Cozy, too.