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Pix:Various Knitting Projects:Sweaters and Other Miscellany
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Swan Lake beginning
Very light laceweight / cobweb weight yarn, down to size 3 needles. There are beads along the edge, which you can see if you look hard.
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Swan Lake first try
This is using size 4 needles, but it just looks too uneven and wavy. p
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February II
A sweater for the Rose-and-Brian-ling. My modified sock yarn February Baby Sweater appears to need slightly more than one skein of Sundara sock; perhaps I should stick with the Malabrigo, which is softer anyway but less pretty colors. Interesting pooling on the arms.
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Lyra
The pattern is a much beloved one by Herbert Niebling, reprinted recently after the magazine that had it had started to sell for $50 on eBay. The yarn is Sundara Silk Lace (Copper over Bamboo). I spent a lot of bus time in Turkey working on it, and ended up thinking of it as Pomegranate Lace.
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Kind of February Sweater
Same basic model, different stitch pattern (Herringbone Rib).
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Steeplechase Vest (flash)
This shows the color more accurately. I am somewhat disappointed with the minor color variation between skeins of the same dye lot.
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Steeplechase Vest (no flash)
This shows the texture more clearly. Blocking did open up the lace nicely.
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February Sweater
One of the Elizabeth Zimmerman classics, knitted all in one piece, except for a crochet button bit. The color is somewhere between red and brown (redder than the picture shows)
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Hanami stole
Basketweave end
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Hanami stole
Falling Blossoms end
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Hanami
Basketweave closeup
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Hanami
Blossoms closeup.
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Habitat Hat
To (sort of) match the scarf, for my brother for Christmas
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So-Called Scarf
To (sort of) match the hat, for my brother for Christmas
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Knuckle Gloves
So rif can be a two-fisted force of punchy logic. or something.
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Knuckle Gloves
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Endpaper Mitts
You can tell these are for Marleigh because they don't match. Actually, now that I look at this picture, I realize that they're even more non-matching than I had intended. How embarassing.
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Pacific Islands Stole, close-up
Sundara silk lace in Black over Fuschia. It's hard to get the color right
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Pacific Islands Stole
Laid out for blocking.
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Corsica, Blocked
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Blocked
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Corsica, Felted
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Felted
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Brown Hat
More Malabrigo - "Koolhaas" hat. (Designed for a tighter yarn, but it's very soft.
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So-Called Scarf
Really, that's what it's called. It's knit in Malabrigo wool, which I can now see why it's so popular. It's ridiculously comfy and soft.
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Waif Gloves
They're alpaca, and fuzzy warm. The alpaca is from the NH Sheep and Wool Festival, and seems to have enough for another two pairs.
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One Glove
It's sort of hard to see the stitch definition, but the cuffs have an interesting slip stitch pattern.
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Baby Surprise (for Elizabeth & Warren's baby)
This was made a little while ago, in time for the first attempt at a shower, and back when the sex was more definitely female.
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Hat and Scarf
(for Eon). It uses leftover yarn from Jan's Tapestry sweater.
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Gold Scarf
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Green Hat
It's a sort of odd hat. The cables and texture aren't bad, but the top is kind of eccentric.
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Hat before Sewing
You knit it up as a tube, seam the pattern stitches together, and then connect the seed sitch sides on top of that.
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Grey Sweater of Doom
Done, finally!
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Mike brandishes the sweater.
This is a really heavy sweater. His arms are going to get tired soon!
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Mike models the sweater
You can see the resemblance to the pink Fulmar, but they're different cables.
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Fulmar
Another massive cably sweater in Louet Gems. This is the original pattern.
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Three Ends!
Something is wrong with this picture. And that's not even counting the center-pull end, that I haven't pulled out yet.
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First Cuff
After some experimentation, I'm pleased with how this looks. The grey isn't the same, but it's not objectionable. I've used two strands (it felt too thin with just one), and used some of the unraveled original cuff to put in the alternating stitches at the beginning. Just knitting it up in grey was too sharp of a transition, especially since all the other color transitions are zig-zaggy.
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Mesh Bag
This is not my favorite of items, but it's workable, and it knitted up darned fast. It suffers a little bit from "donkey ears" (that is, drooping corners), but it's quite stretchable and the corners tuck in when there's something in the bag. (For Meg).
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The Trend Continues
This one isn't even for Amelia, it's for Donna! I'm pleased with how the sleeves on this one worked out. It's got the thing I call a "barred fake-cable" on the front, which is a little hard to make out.
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Grey Cables
This was originally for Mike, but came out a little too small. Thus Andrea gets it. It's a duplicate of a grey sweater that Elizabeth has, so someday there will be three! I personally find knitted popcorns somewhat weird, but I did eventually get better at them.
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White Cotton
(Jess) I made a second one in the same yarn but a different color, and it came out totally differently. This one is getting shorter as it's washed; the ecru cotton version is supposedly getting longer with each wash. !
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Enormous Wool Sweater
(Jess) This one is really large because it was based on a sketch Jess made. The sketch really *looked* like a tiny stick figure in an enormous sweater, but I hear that that was artistic license.
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Red Cably Sweater
(Jess) This one actually looks a good bit like...
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Blue Cably Sweater
...this one. At least, the travelling stitch zigzags are kind of similar. (Mike)
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Snowy Sweater
(Jess) This is one of the first sweaters I made, and had some serious issues with gauge. It's more of a sweater-dress.
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Blue Cably Sweater
(Jess) Another one with similarities to a...
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Black Cably Sweater
...subsequent Mike sweater.
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Red Cotton
(Mike) And hey, this looks like the White Cotton one, too.
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Escher Lizards
(Mike) I made this pattern! Using real math and everything, to make the lizards scale appropriately at the neck and over the arms. Unfortunately, once designed, the size can only be changed by changing the needle size. So the Mike version is a little large, and the Mom version (not pictured here) is a little small. Oh well.
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White Cables
(Mike) I think this pattern was designed for a heavier yarn than was used; it's not obvious from the picture, but the knit fabric is a little loose.
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Grey Foofy Sweater
(Mike) I wanted to make something in a brioche stitch, just to see how it worked up. It's a black/green stranded wool, and a little boring, but comfy. Oddly, there's a button on the collar; I'm not sure what the point of that was.
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Noru Stripe
(Mike) Another one of those sweaters where I wanted to try something. I like the Noru space-dyed yarns, but using them for a whole sweater can be overkill. I think the stripey effect worked well.
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Vest
Vest for Kate. I really like this pattern; it's nicely tailored and lets you do a lot with different colors. I made one for Donna around the same time.
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Klein Hat
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Mobius Scarf
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