There's been knitting and...

It's been a full an crazy couple months - 

Knitting has taken the form of "whatever is easy" :-)

I finshed the Sophia, and it's great fun to wear.

The yarn, Mahalo, was on sale and discountinued.. and I know why. It had a minimum of two knots in each small 50g skein, and it was splity.  Not much fun to work with.. and I literally threw out the leftover skeins (heaven forfend!..It's true!).

I cast on for a second one in black, with a higher quality yarn, for my daughter. and it was much better. This is a very fun easy, well written pattern. Its a light weight pullover. You can find it on Ravelry.

 

Also, I finished Chaleur. What a super pattern (if you follow it exactly as she wrote!) And I predict that I will wear this sweater often in the coming winter.

The only part that I had frustration with was the bind off for the neck.. And I'm fairly certain that it was my error, not the author's, but it was a real challenge. I ended up doing a three needle bind off, and I'm still not pleased because it shows (it's supposed to be invisble). 

It's one of those things that I finally had to set aside because it frustrated me too much, but I'm certainly going to rip and redo the final neck bind off. Otherwise I love it. 

This sweater runs really big - so measure for the hips - and I went down a size and its still huge and comfy.

I've been also knitting color affection.... ahhhh. a sweet easy easy garter stitch short row shawl. Three skeins of a similar weight yarn, and you're good to go!

 

This is knit up on a size 6 needle, and this is three skeins of fingerling weight yarn (sock yarn).One size fits all (grins). Probably the only hint I can share is to make the first and last three stitches on every row as loose as you possibly can, otherwise it will not block properly

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 I've already cast on for another of these, as a gift. No photos until after the reveal.

And in another surprise plot twist.... I got engaged! Yup   -  happy me. We'll be married in the fall.

Comments

[Lorette]

Hey! You put a HUGE surprise right there at the end! Congratulations!

[Manise]

Awww.... Congratulations Teyani! I am so very happy for you! :-)

Beautiful knits too.

[Stacey]

Congratulations! Can't wait for the FO pictures of the wedding.