Fall sports are winding down and I am on my last few hours of sitting waiting for lessons to finish. My Juneau Woolies Hat is ready for decreases.
This hat has been delightful. The Kid Seta is so very soft knit up with the sock yarn. This hat feels almost weightless it is so light. The marbling and flecks in the sock yarn peak out nicely from from the halo of the mohair.
Now I just need golf to be over so I can go home and get my DPNs to start the decreases! Happy Knitting!!
My Juneau Woolies Hat now has a brim. I started to feel like the 2×2 ribbing would never end.
It really didn’t take that long as I am working on US 8 needles. I was just ready to be done with purling. Folded in half the brim is roughly 3 inches so a nice thick section over the ears for warmth. Now I can cruise and cruise through stockinette.
I will learn from my Boreal Hat and work to make a taller hat body than last time. Go for more of a slouch rather than a skull cap.
Happy Knitting!!
I have finished the body of the Autumn Gold and ready to start the hem ribbing.
I added length to the body to account for my torso and preferred length. I am guessing a little bit as my swatch wasn’t big enough to tell me how much it will grow. But this Berroco is known to relax and grow. I figure I can always rip it back and take out some in the body and sleeves.
I am just really excited to get this off the needles as I really can’t stop thinking about knitting the Love Note from my SSK yarn.
Happy Knitting!!
The sleeves of Autumn Gold are complete and happily matching.
I ended the second sleeves with just one tiny nub of yarn left from the skein. Both sleeves knit nicely from one skein of yarn. I will have more than enough to finish this sweater based on what I have caked up.
Now I am just on the forever knitting of the body and adding the ribbed side details. So I have to pay attention on every other round. I wonder how many times I will get that wrong?
Happy Knitting!!
Duke is doing his best to derail my Autumn Gold Sweater. It’s a good thing he is super cute and very cuddly.
I was in a place where I needed more “autopilot” knitting and that is NOT this sweater body that has a section with moving increases and decreases. So I broke out the short circulars and started one of the sleeves. This is all stockinette and easy symmetric decreases that a can be counted. I made great progress on the first sleeve in my meeting!
I will probably wrap up this sleeve and go ahead and complete the second one while I am at it. That way I have a better shot at the sleeves matching and being the same length. I can count rows and make the second one identical.
I am really liking this project and the speed at which it is going. Remind me of that when I get back to working the body that has a pattern!
Happy Knitting!!
The yoke eternity is over! I have officially split for sleeves on my Autumn Gold pullover!!
I have a wee bit of stockinette before I start the body patterning. I like my sweaters just a little but longer as my torso is long for my frame. So I am added some rows under the arms before the pattern. I am getting ready to finish the second ball of yarn so I don’t think yarn chicken will apply.
Therefore I think I will keep doing the body and save the sleeves for last. At least for now I may change my mind if I need a break from the body patterning and length.
Happy Knitting!!
This week has been for slow porch mornings. I am still recovering from attending SSK this past week. My head and my draft posts are so full of memories that I am working on processing. Hopefully over the next couple of days I will send my drafts out 🙂
For now, I am drinking some coffee and working on my Autumn Gold pullover on the patio. I am in the interminable part where I am done with increases but working to get to full yoke depth. I am two skeins of yarn in and chugging along. And I cannot wait until I am divided for sleeves and the stitch count goes under 300….
Happy Knitting!!
I had some waiting room time this week and I really powered through several sections of my Autumn Gold sweater.
This pattern is pretty good thus far. Easy to follow and making a nice fabric. I am using a sunshine marker to help me keep track of each section when it asks me to knit for a certain length. I could measure from the increases but this feels more secure based on my previous knitting mistakes.
It’s also been nice to move to the bigger needles and not have so many stitches bunched up on the needle. I think I have two of five increases done so I have a lot of more stitches to add to this thing.
Happy Knitting!!
Thanks to my successful swatching, I was able to start my Autumn Gold Sweater!
I am making the size XL and have already made one modification. I did not want to work the ribbing on the pattern recommended needles so I chose other needles. They are smaller than I will work on the body so there will be a size difference, just not to the designers specs.
I am done with the 1×1 ribbing and can switch over to the main body in stockinette. I much prefer stockinette in the round to ribbing in the round! How about you?
After finishing my Radiate Hat, I got my Copycat CC beanie cast on and started. This has been on my wishful knitting planning for a little bit.
I chose to use a skein of Malabrigo Rios that was already wound up and ready to go. The pattern called for twisted ribbing and I failed to do that, oops. But I have almost the full brim done and I need to fold it over and attach before starting the main body pattern.
This is going pretty fast but there is a lot of purling in my future….happy knitting!!
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