Pumpkin Sunrise

Remember this old thing?  This is the Lincoln Green Sweater  I am knitting for my husband.  I am a couple of rows away from finishing the raglan shaping.  The very best way to make sure a sweater fits someone is to measure their favorite sweater.  Which I did.  However this pattern required measuring a favorite raglan sweater or sweatshirt and get the raglan length.  The sweater that I measured was a set in sleeve design.  So I am missing a crucial number. To guess the number (accuracy is my forte!)  I did two things.  I number crunched how many stitches I needed for the sleeve width and body width and knew what number of stitches I wanted. Then the other thing I did was lengthen my circular knitpick nickel plated needles with the knitting needle cable connectors so that my husband could try the sweater on........Ah, a live body!!  Now I know I am on the right tract.  So clever! I love top down construction......don'...

My knitting this week has been quite productive.  I finished a mystery knit which I cannot post a photo as of yet. However, in the above photo is the very LAST cowl for a Christmas gift to my extended family.  So the only people I have left to knit for (if I want) is my husband and two children......easy peasy!!  The above cowl is the same pattern as the others .  I only casted on 120 stitches instead of the 200 stitches since I only have one skein of yarn. I finished my featherweight cardigan and posted about it here  and my ravelry page has the details.  I am thrilled that it is off the needles :)  I love tiny needle knitting but a much needed break is in my future. For reading I picked up this book at the bookstore about a month ago.  I chose it because of the cover....I hope the story it holds is as good as the cover art.  I just started reading last night so I have no opinions at this time.  The title is The Physick Book o...

For how long it took to knit this sweater, it was worth every teeny tiny stitch.  I love how light weight it is and the drape is fantastic!!  I am very pleased with the fit this time around.  Going down a needle size did the trick. The ravelry project page is here . This only took one skein of Madeline Tosh Lace .  I barely made it with the yarn though....I would have liked to have had one more inch to the collar.  I have another skein in the same colorway but just was too lazy to ball it up on the winder.  My idea to use a different leftover green madelinetosh yarn was not very nice looking.  In other words, it was a bad idea.  I cannot wait to wear this!!!