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This colour makes me happy.
Hmm, what could it be?
Now we're getting somewhere.
Slow progress due to back trouble, but progress nonetheless.
Starting to look pretty cool.
Body finished, sleeves begun. This is bottom-up so we'll finish with the yoke once the sleeves are done.
I'm still just delighted with the colour!
I'm still just delighted with the colour!
I love the way the tentacles wind around the sleeves.
Tentacle project is not the only knitting I've been doing this month.
This is a Smaychel sized sweater in a dusky pink wool that is several decades old. I used a plain, vintage pattern to match it - slightly oversized and slouchy. It is blocking before being sewn up.
This is a Smaychel sized sweater in a dusky pink wool that is several decades old. I used a plain, vintage pattern to match it - slightly oversized and slouchy. It is blocking before being sewn up.
New project.
Knitting is how I cope with anxiety, so here is another jumper! Modeled by its recipient (and the coolest human I know).
This one is also coming on apace and is just so, so satisfying.
And I don't want to show too much because we're getting close to the Big Reveal, but both sleeves and the body are done now and I am very close to finishing what is probably the coolest garment I've ever made.
This is starting to look more like a thing.
Can I get a drumroll please?
It is finally finished.
Four months of lockdown; four jumpers.
And on its recipient!
On to the next project. My first love will always be colourwork but there's something so delicious about hand knitted cables.
I'm very nearly finished with this jumper, probably the next day or two. It's making me happy 
Everything I knit becomes my new favourite, but this one is 
Pattern is called Enchanted Garden, modeled by Audrey but knit for her friend's birthday tomorrow.
Pattern is called Enchanted Garden, modeled by Audrey but knit for her friend's birthday tomorrow.
It's the little details that make this so lovely to knit. The way the bands of pattern line up so perfectly between the body and the sleeves. The way the intarsia flowers at the top repeat on the back and the sleeve caps. All the different shades of blue. The rolled edges.
A pretty little thing appears.
This is immensely pretty.
And comes along so quick!
100% alpaca 4-ply, in lime and petrol.
100% alpaca 4-ply, in lime and petrol.
One pretty mitten done and blocked, one to go.
Mitten poll!
Should I do the second mitten in the same colourway (blue on green) or inverse (green on blue)?
Should I do the second mitten in the same colourway (blue on green) or inverse (green on blue)?
Some progress is going on here, too.
(This is a commissioned knit, and I'm having a lot of fun with it!)
