Lynne, I really like this sweater; I'd like to think about making it, too. Could you give us a heads-up as to what the name of the sweater is so that we could track down the pattern? Thanks! Janet
THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW In a fit of depravity I ripped the above sock out, just wasn't happy working on it, so now its toast. And I feel better even seeing the small leftover balls. Went thru all project bags looking for my Koigu yarn, and in the bag found a glove already started. Back now to my much loved gloves. A number of years ago traded two different people gloves for 5 balls of Koigu each (was much cheaper then). Plus had bought lots from eBay, so have enuff to make many more pair, especially since I save all left over little balls. Eventually I'll go back to making socks (its in the blood). I'm not taking orders anymore tho, will just make what I like (especially Monster Socks). Maybe now and then a pair of fair isle type. Its going to be a brown and mild Christmas, one of the few since I've lived here. Snow in forecast for the middle of next week. The best part of the holiday season (IMHO) is the World Junior Hockey tournament, in Europe...
Typical lunch this time of year, tomatoes from Desert Hills in Ashcroft (banana belt of BC). Went down and picked up a 25 pound box of ripe field tomatoes, have had one with every meal since getting home. Ashcroft is a good 5 hour drive, so it has to be a planned trip, expensive to drive that far but so worth it for me. Finished another pair of scrapper socks, used as many of the brighter colours as I could find in the stash. Ended up quite liking them. They will go into a basket for Christmas giving. And have two more pair on the needles. The darker pair look like black is the main colour but its actually a really dark blue. The blue - greens is from last blog, all leftover...
That was then This is now Finished this pair last night, came out better than I thought they would. Best part used up lots of small leftover balls. This is a pix of my wild mountain valley, unknown source for the pix. Went to town last Friday mostly to handle Visa problems (again). While there I found real field tomatoes at Beaver Valley feed store, not what I would call first quality but hey I know how to cut funny spots off. They taste good and that is the most important part. Did what I call down n dirty, in and out in one day (6 hours total driving). Plus several places to stop and walk around. Took me two days to recover. Grocery store was a bit of a winter stock up walk thru, TP, Scotties tissues, canned goods, extra salt, flour, things I don't want to run out of over the winter. With football season under way (both colle...
Lynne, I really like this sweater; I'd like to think about making it, too. Could you give us a heads-up as to what the name of the sweater is so that we could track down the pattern? Thanks! Janet
ReplyDeleteSweater is called "Less is More; and from a Knitty. Hope this helps.
DeleteLove the sweater, can't wait to see it knit up.
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