New Year, New Headgear



This year's New Year's Eve project was Calorimetry.



There is something obscene about this. What's the feminine version of "phallic"?

I have been knitting a lot, in spite of not writing about it. I've finished: the Ladybug Sweater,

the Car Sweater,


Wonder,


Caroline


and
Kai's Cable Sweater (again)



since last we spoke.

The car sweater just needs to have one sleeve sewn in and then it and the ladybug sweater off to the new twins, Bren and Emory who were born on the last day of November and who we finally met last weekend. It will be awhile until those sweaters fit (apparently Norwegian babies are larger) so no hurry and Jenn, their mom, saw them in their almost finished state. They're both Dale patterns; Ladybug is true to the pattern, Cars is heavily modified--different edging (hem instead of ribbing), different colors, different patterning on the sleeves.

Kai 2 (from Natural Knits) went to someone I work with who is due in about three weeks.

Caroline (from Louet's website) was great fun to knit, not so much to crochet the edging. Euroflax may be lovely but it's like crocheting with garden twine. The sweater was also a fun experiment in felting. I've ordered more yarn to make it again and the original has found a new happy home with my petite friend Daphne. Actually, the problem had more to do with the fact that I have shoulders, and no sweater (or shirt, for that matter) with cap sleeves ever really fits me. The rest of it was fine, but the shoulders were uncomfortable. I'm going to make it again, probably a size larger, and modify the sleeves. The Louet Riverstone is wonderful yarn and this knits up very quickly.

Wonder is from Rowan #40 knit out of Lopi. It was an impulse knit, started in August when I had been working only on Baby Dale sweaters and socks and I wanted to work with bulky wool. Yarns in the Farms had Lopi on sale and the rest is history. It was an awfully fast knit, too, (anything is after a Baby Dale) and I enjoyed it though I think it looks weird on me. I haven't decided whether I'm keeping it yet or not.

Calorimetry was lots of fun to make, I love the yarn (Noro Kochoran in color 10, blues, greys and greens, from last week's sale at Woolcott) and kept me wicked warm last night during the First Night parade.

As always, check JoBleudeMaine on Ravelry for progress pictures.

I'm in the odd position of having nothing on my needles. Socks? Swallowtail Shawl out of some Malabrigo Lace that I also got last week at Woolcott? Roscalie vest from In the Hebrides? I spent the day reading patterns looking at other people's versions of those patterns on Ravelry, and sorting out all the needles that needed to go away after all the finished projects. Back to work tomorrow (where someone will undoubtedly announce her pregnancy as I have finally finished everything on my list of impending babies to knit for and make the decision easy). No more Baby Dales in the near future--Kai's Cable Sweater for everyone from now on.

Posted: Tue - January 1, 2008 at 05:08 PM          

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