Look at what’s blocking!
Button-Up Neck Warmer and Liesl, blocking.
I hadn’t planned on blocking either of these yesterday, but I got home before Matt and had some time to myself, so I washed and blocked the Button-Up Neck Warmer and Liesl. I also got some great buttons yesterday at Banasch’s. I think I might be slightly obsessed with wooden buttons. I can’t help it! They call to me and I want to put them on every project I make lately.
Pretty wooden buttons.
I’ll leave you guessing which buttons are going to which projects for now. You’ll see soon enough! 🙂
I was feeling rather bored with most of my knitting projects last night, so I brought out my Open Flame sock, pulled out the cast off, ripped back the ribbing, cut out the extra stripes so I could line it up with the current strip of the skein, and started knitting the leg longer. I thought that I’d like the shorter leg, but I just didn’t. I tried to convince myself it was fine and even started the second sock. I knew, deep down, that I wouldn’t be happy with it, though. It got set aside because of that until yesterday. I absolutely LOVE Vesper yarn and the stripes. Probably my favorite sock yarn for plain socks. I want to do something different at some point, but I just love watching the stripes take shape as I knit around and around and around and… 🙂
Back on the needles, Open Flame stockinette sock.
I have to admit that some of the pictures I take and post here aren’t from my regular point and shoot camera. Many of them, like the one above, have come from my iPhone 3Gs. It actually has a great camera and I’ve taken some good pictures with it. This one is probably my favorite. So crisp and clear as if I’d taken it with my camera using the macro setting. I love having a camera with me at any given time and it’s great that this one takes such good pictures! Anyhow… I just wanted to share that since I’ve been rather impressed by it.
Have you seen the new issue of Twist Collective that came out yesterday? There’s a lot of great patterns in there as always, but the one that has captured my attention is the Vine Yoke Cardigan by Ysolda Teague. It’s knit side to side, in one piece, and comes in a wide range of sizes. I haven’t knit a sweater in this manner before, but something I have wanted to try. I just haven’t seen any patterns knit this way that have called to me like this one is! I had to restrain myself from winding yarn and starting it yesterday. I plan on using Brooks Farm Mas-Acero (55% wool, 30% Silk, 15% viscose) that I have in my stash. I was thinking of doing the February Lady Sweater with it, but my interest in knitting that has dwindled. Eventually I’m sure I will, just not right now.
In my stash, I have enough yarn to make at least 4 sweaters: Climbing Vines Pullover, another Liesl, Little Birds Cardigan, and Vine Yoke cardigan. Did you know those last three are all by Ysolda Teague? Totally not intentional, just so happens I seem to love most of the patterns she’s done! This year seems to be all about sweaters for me. I suppose after almost 2 years of being obsessed with socks, I’m not totally surprised that I’d move to something else at some point. Not to say that I’ll stop knitting socks (really, I doubt that will EVER happen!), but right now I’m all about knitting sweaters and I’m pretty inclined to give into that feeling. 🙂
What’s your favorite kind of thing to knit? What patterns are calling to you this time of year? I’d love to know!
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I’m a button fanatic. Your wooden ones are beautiful.
Love those buttons! I always try to use up what I have (from grandma), so I hardly ever buy any. I probably should! I still have to see if I have something for my Neck Warmer.
I am trying not to start anything new, but sweaters are also calling to me lately! Something with a yoke! I see you put the fingering pullover in the new Interweave in your queue. Me too! Also, I have seen the Twist Collective and those patterns are gorgeous! There is a shawl pattern that she has too (the name is escaping me right now) that I see alot. Really pretty as well.
I have to agree that I am a little tired of knitting socks at the moment and last night I cast on the Lily Cardigan. I am almost all the way through the reglan increases. I also have so many other projects on the needles that after this sweater I think I will focus on finishing up all the UFO’s but that would take forever so just a couple of them before I start another project. But then again my youngest has asked me to make her a sweater as well so maybe that will be next. Good grief who now’s I’ll just keep knitting.
Right now I’ve got gloves and socks going, as well as a lovely cabled and braided afghan. There are lots of glove patterns calling to me for some odd reason. And I just got some Patton’s Jacquard that I’m dying to knit up just to see how the patterns come together. I haven’t tried a sweater yet because they seem so complicated. But I know I’ll be trying soon.