Eunny Strikes Again!
I started the tangled yoke cardigan and am jumping through the ribbing. I love the garter rib she uses. Now, as a typically seasonal knitter, one might ask “Why, Patti, are you knitting a tweed cardigan in August when you won’t want to wear it until at least October?” Well, ladies and gentlemen, tha apocalypse is nigh, it has finally happened, after several threats, my mother and I are knitting the same sweater!
She was very sneaky when picking out the yarn under the guise of choosing a nice yarn for a cardigan her guild will be making together. After I helped her in ignorance, choosing a beautiful yarn. Green Noro solid, which is delightful to knit with and has a gorgeous sheen that is very subtle. Then we proceed to another yarn store: the Yarn and Fiber Co, where I picked up the felted tweed for this sweater as well as yarn for the Dickinson Pullover, also from the fall interweave. After taking a look at the stack of yarn I was purchasing (there was some sock yarn in there too) and the magazine with my mother’s name on it that I was planning to knit from, she threw in a free copy of the fall issue! A sweepingly generous move, or a vicious scheme concocted by my mother who went in the day before to pay for the magazine without telling me... you decide.
Despite the promise that we would never wear the sweaters near each other, and the fact that we are using very different yarns, I have decided that at the very least I will finish the sweater first, and so I am knitting a cardigan in a wool alpaca blend in August.
The tangled yoke cardigan from the fall interweave designed by Eunny Jang in Felted Tweed by Rown, the yarn it was designed in.
Monday, August 13, 2007
I need another sweater like a fish needs a cabled cardigan...
