Category: sweaters

  • laura loves lara

    Laura also loves:

    – finishing 3 papers (and on time)
    – finishing one last embryology test
    – being done undergraduate classes FOREVER

    Still three exams to go. But at least they a) don’t start for more than a week and b) are spread out so I can study for each.

    And Lara? LOVE.

    lara!

    Pattern: Lara from Debbie Bliss’ “Alpaca Silk”
    Yarn: DB Alpaca Silk (aran) in Teal, 14 skeins (the exact number called for with less than half a skein left over)
    Needles: Denise US 7

    Love, love, love this sweater. It’s so cushy and soft, and warm, and was a fast and easy knit. Very satisfying. I’ll definitely knit this one again, maybe in something like handspun in stripes or something? Or a Noro?

    I wore it with a two-pronged hair thingy with a butterfly on it the other night, but now I seem to have lost the hair thingy – very unfortunate. On the plus side, I did find that other wooden hair stick that I love so much for closing sweaters. I wore Lara today just open, and it’s really comfy that way – some of my other ones I prefer to wear closed.

    Laid out (colour’s more accurate in the first photo):

    lara flat

    I do believe I’m back on the blogging thing! It was a hard week (with lots of studying yet to come) but everything’s getting just that much closer to actually being DONE.

  • mmmm, jam

    I went to the One of a Kind Show this evening with Elizabeth, who happily had two free tickets! (I would’ve gone anyway, but that made it awesomer.)

    I had a really nice time and there was lots of stuff I liked. I ended up buying a really cute top and skirt from one seller, and I just looooved their other skirts – but they were a bit too pricey for me (about $150!). The skirt was a large and the top an extra small, go figure.

    I also bought a whole bunch of eatables! Blueberry balsamic (the same kind you got last year erin), maple mustard (had to avenge the Rhinebeck mustard), very nice red wine vinegar, maple jelly (very cool), marmalade, chocolate covered blueberries, cherries, and raspberries, and a garlic bread dipper (I think it would be quite nice on pasta). Mmmmmm, sampling. I realized afterwards that I’d wanted to get this onion marmalade but forgot. Probably better that way.

    There was a lot of very nice glass jewelery that I liked, but I don’t think I’m going to be able to go back this weekend (and we didn’t get a reentry thingy either, so I’d have to pay). The whole thing was definitely inspiring, and made it feel like spring to me for some reason, maybe all the shiny new things. I think some Etsy jewelery shopping is definitely in order! Any suggestions?

    In the meanwhile, while the weather is warming up I’ve been working with alpaca:

    lara by dinner

    It’s Lara by Debbie Bliss, in Alpaca Silk from elann when they had it awhile ago – very nice colour, extremely luxurious yarn, and very fast knit! That’s still about the place I am now, having taken some time away from it for new obsessions (more on that later), but I’m more than halfway done. I am concerned about wear, though – I know it’s not going to wear well and it’s already fuzzing a bit. D’oh. Good thing I have a good sweater shaver thing.

    P.S. No new yarn until the Frolic diet isn’t going so well – there’s so much stuff at the store that I want! More organic wool/cotton (I LOVE this yarn) and a beautiful new handdyed merino with fabulous yardage from Dreams in Color. Argh!

  • FO: bubble sweater

    Sorry for the shitty picture. Y’all know I usually do better – maybe it’s time to give up the old camera since it seems to be crapping out on my lately…

    bubble pullover, completed

    Bubble Sweater
    Pattern: from “Knitting Nature” by Norah Gaughan
    Yarn: 8 skeins Manos del Uruguay in colour 64
    Needles: Denise US 6 for the pentagons, US 7 for the sleeves and ribbing

    Modifications:
    Hmmm…I don’t think I really made many. I didn’t pick up as many stitches as it said for the bottom ribbing, and did that in the round (so no buttons). The collar’s shorter but that’s because I ran out of yarn! I only sewed on two buttons for the collar.

    Other than that, I think I actually pretty much just followed the instructions. It was a very satisfying knit, and a great sweater to wear! I think knitting the Manos really tightly will help with the pilling issue. I was worried I wouldn’t get to wear it, but I’ve already gotten a couple wears out of it! Very cozy.

    bubble flat

    It doesn’t really flatten because of the 3D nature of the bubble – but you get the idea. Actual colour is somewhere inbetween these two photos.

    I seem to be in a blue phase, because I’ve got three four more blue projects on the needles!