Remember all those posts about how sweater knitting just doesn’t work for me? Yeah, well – fall is coming. And I just can’t get away from the call of sweater knitting.
That’s 10 hanks of Berroco Ultra Alpaca (bought 3? 4? years ago) for Paul and 8 hanks of Berroco Vintage for me.
I cast on for Paul’s sweater last weekend – Dylan Goes Electric from IK Summer 2005. The first hank knit up quickly and I’m already on hank two. I have no illusions – at some point this project will become the bane of my knitting, so I’m taking advantage of the new-knit excitement.
And once that newness fades, I have some Berroco Vintage (in first pic above) at the ready for me.
It’s been a long time since I last posted but I have been collecting links. Here are some links from a few weeks ago.
Link love:
- If you like Color Affection, check out daisyknits’ version (love the grey/yellow/pink combo!)- and make sure you read her notes on how she made the edges work better for her.
- Andi finished her self-striping socks. Handdyed, even stripes. Love em!
- And Jesse finished her rainbow striped Felici socks. Yes, I am on a self-striping stalking bender.
- Julia Trice’s Mexican Wedding shawl (below) has a great decorative edging knitted lengthways of the shawl. It would work great as a scarf too – and wow, that red!
It’s look like you have your sweater knitting mojo back!!
I must say Berroco Ultra Alpaca is the perfect sweater yarn. It knits up like a dream. Yeah to the call of sweater knitting. It will be brilliant!
Love the link loves! That Mexican shawl has Jody written all over it.
Oh, the sweater bug! Dylan Goes Electric is a nice pattern. I’m looking forward to seeing what the other sweater is!
I look forward to seeing your progress! I don’t knit very fast but once I finish all the projects that are on my “list” now, I really look forward to knit a sweater! The one you chose for your man is beautiful!
Great to see you get back into sweater knitting! That’s beautiful yarn and pattern. Remember the Audrey I was going to knit (even wound up two skeins of yarn for it)? Seeing your sweater progress will help motivate me with that project.