bubble sweater!

I finally finished my bubble pullover: between being a graduate student in 4 classes and working 16 hours a week, not to mention still trying to be on a sports team, it took me nearly 6 months. but it's done! the photo isn't phenomenal, and i'll try to get another one up soon... but i'm pretty happy. though i think it makes my mid-section look rather short because of the two colors.

Vortex Street

I found this moth-eaten cashmere sweater at Goodwill (a thrift store). It was too nice to trash so I decided to refashion it with a scarf collar a la Norah's Cabled Cardigan from the Fall 2006 Issue of Vogue Knitting.

Learn more about vortex streets, as seen from space.

Cowl pullover - finished

Since Ravelry is on, I guess people will less and less use the KAL on the blogosphere, but still for those who are not on Ravelry...it is finished. I love it!!

All pics on FlickR

Hitting the Target

I finished a pair of the Target Wave mittens. I like them enough although their shape is kind of weird. 1 skein of the Goddess Phoebe was not enough, so I had to reverse the colors. More comments and details on my blog.

So which pattern to do next......

Ogee Tunic Done

I finished the Ogee Tunic last week:


This was a great design to make, but some wording in the pattern threw me off and caused some grief and frogging. If you're making the tunic do go over my notes here. The linked blog post also has more pictures, modification (I added waist shaping and shortened the sleeves), and yarn details... This is the second pattern I made from the book, and look forward to many more!

Cowl Pullover

My Cowl Pullover is knitted from 5 skeins of worsted weight Malabrigo in the marine colourway. I knitted an intermediate between sizes petite and small getting the gauge at needles size 6mm.

I couldn't make the instructions for the cowl work, so I changed it by looking at the photos instead - I think it worked out well.

I was a littled worried about sewing and cutting the cowl, but that worked out nicely, too.

I really like the outcome of my efforts - I must say, that this is another clever pattern from Norah: I like how the integrated sleeve-collar makes this an unusual sweater. Mmmmmm :)

Cowl How-to

Hi all,

I thought I would post some pictures about how-to knit the Cowl. I started several times as I thought there was an error in the instructions, but it is correct.

There are 3 YO (yellow arrows), and therefore 3 decreases. The fact that the rows are shifted by 2 stitches make the spiral appear.

Knit until you arrive at the first YO from previous row.

Knit this YO and next stitch

Once arrived at second YO this corresponds to the start of the next round (here is the 2-stitch-shift), now start again with:

1YO,1knit,1YO (see the pink arrows before and after ?)

next stitch is slipped (green) and corresponds to the central stitch (looks like the spinal column -in red- with the ribs/holes at right and left-in orange), next stitch is the 3rd YO from previous round (yellow) and should be knit, then pass over the slipped stitch.(red arrow)

At last, make 2 decreases, by doing k2tog twice (in red). In rounds when increases happen, you just do only once the "k2tog".

My tip: place markers where you increased, or you will get lost;))) Here you can see where the 3rd hole is, bearely visible! this is probably why knitters get confused?!

Enjoy!