Sleeves

I'm around halfway done with the sleeves so far. I decided on the "wheat" to go up the sleeve. I also didn't do the ribbing as high as the instructions. I like pushing my sleeves up sometimes and don't like having something too tight when I do. We're having a couple more days of warm-ish weather so hopefully I'll get this done soon.

Finally starting!!

My yarn and new needles from KnitPicks finally arrived and I have just swatched!


I really like the yarn so far, and how soft it is. This is my first time using needles from KnitPicks and I Love them! They are so amazing and wonderful to knit with - I'm going to go cast on now!

(and I think blogger just ate my post, so if this posts twice I'm sorry)

Yay! I finally got to start!

I began as early today as I could (after all the running around). I figured out where to place the "extra" parts of the cables and will have to remember to add the extra stitches later. (The beginning of the yoke starts as 95 stitches and ends as 102 stitches for my size.) Here are a couple pictures. The red dots are the "wheat stalks" while the blue dots are the "twist" -

I hope everyone can see those.

I have to say that I love this yarn so far. It is the KnitPicks Super Swish in Indigo. It feels soft throught my fingers and drapes gently so far. I am looking forward to having a larger section done so I can tell better.

Good Luck to everyone!

Ta da! I can't believe I knitted this!

I knitted it in Austermann Bambou Soft in Burgundy (color 019).

I am not an experienced knitter; I started knitting about 18 months ago, this is my second sweater, the first one was a plain stockinette short sleeve top-down.

As I mentioned before, if I were to do it again, I would knit it in the round.

If you knit in the round, be sure to mark the 'seams' clearly before you start the cable part.

I knit them all flat and sliped the first stitch in each row; I think that was a big mistake too. Since each one of the slipped stitches spans two rows, figuring out the horizontal bars to pickup for the seam was difficult. I later read somewhere that if the edge is going to be stitched together, then one should not slip the first stitches.

The cable part was quite easy and fun to do, I practiced a few repeats on my swatch.

All said and done, I think this was a great learning experience and a very satisfying one too.

If someone had told me two years ago that I will be knitting the sweater on the cover of IK, I would have just laughed :)

If you have any questions send me e-mail, I'll be happy to answer.

Welcome to our knitalong!

Hello everyone!

Kasia and I thought it would be fun to do a knitalong for this gorgeous sweater that was on the front of the Summer 2007 Interweave Knits. We are looking at starting the KAL on September 1st, when the weather starts to cool a bit, and would love to have anybody who's interested join us in knitting this beautiful sweater. We're posting early so people have time to get their supplies and buy the magazine if they don't already have it. At this point there isn't a deadline as far as finishing the sweater and we can have the KAL continue as long as there is interest in it. Also, if you have already started the sweater and would like to post here, you are more than welcome to! Thanks for stopping by and we do hope you'll join us for a fun time chatting, knitting, and posting everyone's lovely FO's and WIP's! Stay tuned for updates.....

Happy Knitting,
Maryanne