Knitty thoughts

[selenay]

I really need a knitting icon.

I've been very remiss at is the pictures of finished knitted objects. Two pairs of socks, a hat and two sweaters have come off my needles and haven't been blogged at all. Right now I'm working on some socks in a pattern that I love and some yarn that I am a bit ambivalent about that will be a birthday present for a friend. I'm pretty confident that my friend will rather love the yarn, but it's definitely not something I'd wear myself. Those socks won't appear on the Web until after his birthday, but everything else needs blogging.

I suspect that I'll be doing my own copy of those socks at some stage, in a slightly less, um, intense colour.

I'm also starting to consider my winter knitting. I'm definitely doing Tubey in Rowan Cashsoft Aran, probably in a gorgeous teal colour unless I get swayed by the aubergine. I've fallen in love with a cap-sleeved top/sweater thing in the new Rowan magazine done in Cocoon. It would be perfect over a shirt or a long-sleeved T-shirt and fabulously warm. My plan is to see whether I can get any Cocoon in the John Lewis Boxing Day sale before I look at sourcing from websites.

Today I saw a pattern for raglan sleeve, yoke necked sweater with owls on the yoke done by stitch pattern rather than colour work. It's adorable and looks great in all the finished projects on Ravelry and I think that I'm in love. I'll need to think carefully about the yarn for that, although I'm drawn to Malabrigo Chunky because it's Mal and I could get some great colours.

First, though, I'm knitting my sister a cardigan to replace her Christmas present that was stolen a few weeks after she got it. Hopefully it will be ready when she comes to visit in October and it will give me a few weeks to get the yarn for Tubey.

Wow, I'm a knitting geek :-)

Comments

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

That Tubey thing will suit you a treat :-). And when you say 'intense', you don't mean 'violent orange', by any chance do you?

Txx

[selenay]

*shuffles feet*

Well, they are quite orange, yes. In my defence, I saw the yarn months ago and thought of you. I've been trying to find something a bit more subtle but had no luck. And at least four people in my knit group want to steal these socks.

I'm actually quite pleased because the pattern is working out really nicely :-)

[catseatsocks.livejournal.com]

I think I have three knitting icons.

[selenay]

I'm going to do a hunt round and find something appropriate :-)