a sweater, a shawl, and a tangle of jewelry
The sweater I was swatching for last week is flying along. I’m a little worried about running out of yarn, which always makes me knit faster, like if I knit fast enough I’ll be able to out knit my yardage (as silly as that sounds). More pictures and information on the pattern, yarn, etc. in this post.
I started a new shawl in a skein of Julie Asselin’s “Merletto” it’s in one of her new fall colorways. I don’t want to spill the beans too early (hence the black & white photo), but it’s absolutely beautiful! I love collaborating with yarnies and I’m so glad Julie provided yarn support for this shawl!
And I managed to untangled a pile of jewelry. The apartment is basically back together (after the painting and the bedbugs) but there are still little bags of things here and there, (like my jewelry.)
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go back to pouring all my free time into my sweater.
The Versio Sweater – beginnings
I’m not a sweater knitter. I’m a shawl knitter.
I was a sock knitter for awhile.
I’ve knit some mittens. And some hats.
I knit a bag once. And a blanket.
Some stuffed animals. And a pair of slippers.
But I don’t really knit sweaters.
I’ve finished a total of 5.
I felted one.
And one needs a dropped stitch tacked down.
And one I might over dye.
So I have 3 that are wearable (one of which has a date with the dye pot.)
And one that has about 10 minutes of work on it.
But I started another one last week.
Which brings me up to 5 sweaters on the needles.
(I’m not quite sure how that happened…)
The pattern is Versio by Ankestrick (here it is on Ravelry.) It’s a top down pullover, with continuous set in long sleeves (which are kind of totally brilliant!), and I’ll be adding the hood that Rililie on Ravelry wrote out.
I chose it to fill the role of a sweatshirt in my self-made wardrobe. I wanted something light but warm, that would be easy to wear, but not boring to knit.
I’m holding two strands of lace weight yarn together (the pattern calls for one strand of lace weight) on a size US 8 (5.0 mm) needle.
I’m using 1 skein of Julie Asselin’s “Merletto,” 1 skein of Sweet Georgia’s “Merino Silk Lace,” 1 skein of Fiberspates’ “Scrumptious,” and 1 skein of Cascade’s “Forest Hills.”
I’m hoping most of 1 skein of each will be a enough. Everything (except the Cascade), is from some swatching I was doing for my LYS, so I have one almost full skein of each.
I’m beginning to have my doubts that this will be enough yarn on it’s own. If it’s not, I’m planning on doing the lower portions of the body and sleeve in the solid black Cascade.
I’m at the waist now and zooming towards the hem, while still trying to work out how I ended up with *5* sweaters on my needles…
(please tell me I’m not the only one who finds it amusing that I have the same number of sweater WIPs as I do FOs.)
I’m knitting again!
I’m knitting!!!
Sure, it’s not a lot of knitting, but it’s something. And after weeks of no knitting – it feels amazing! I’m swatching for a new sweater, Versio, by Ankestrick Designs, in three lace weight yarns, Fiber Space’s ‘Scrumptious,’ Sweet Georgia’s ‘Merino Lace,’ and Julie Aselin’s ‘Merletto.’
Getting gauge is proving challenging (mostly because I’m holding two strands together, instead of just one) and I’m very close to saying “fuck it” and reworking the pattern to make it work with my gauge, but I have one more swatch on the needles that may give me the correct gauge. Fingers crossed.
I’ve also done some spinning. I pulled out the 100% alpaca that I started spinning 3 (!) weeks ago. Spinning a little here, and a little there. Mostly when I haven’t felt like futzing with getting gauge on my sweater.
The apartment is sloooooooowly coming back together, I’m hoping to get the sewing machine set up soon, so I can start sewing again for The Self-Made Wardrobe project.
Speaking of which,
I “officially” restarted the self-made wardrobe project on Friday! Whee!!
I’m excited, but mostly I’m trying not to be too concerned that August isn’t that far away from fall, and the weather turning cold (hence the sweater.)
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