sigh

Well, I thought I'd have finished one of the fronts of my Perfin cardigan before we leave to visit my family, but alas, as I was doing the armhole shaping section, I realized that I had too many stitches in the "button band" portion, and not enough in the "body" portion: I briefly considered trying…

finished back!

I finished the back of my Perfin cardigan this morning! It took quite a bit of concentration (and ripping and reknitting) to follow the directions for the box pleat and shoulder shaping; I'm really not used to magazine pattern-writing style, and it strikes me that in order to understand what a pattern is telling you…

and for my next sweater…

I mentioned in a previous post that one of my goals for the foreseeable future was to turn as much of my stash as I could into sweaters. Here in Western NY, the climate is such that for at least half of the year (from October through April), it's sweater-weather, at least for someone like…

Gamaldags!

Gamaldags is all done! And it's chilly enough today that I actually WANT to be wearing it! Ravelry Project Page Pattern: Gamaldags by Hélène Magnússon Yarn: Lettlopi in Ash Grey, Spring Green Heather, Glacier Blue Heather, and custom-dyed hot pink, red, and yellow yarns from The Icelandic Knitter Needles: Size 7 for the stockinette portions,…