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Ribbing For Autumn Gold

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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!!

Two Autumn Gold Sleeves

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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!!

Puppy Dog Eyes And A Sleeve

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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!!

Bibliophile 2 In The Round

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I made some slow and steady progress on the Bibliophile 2 sweater. I am through the back and forth process that has a ton of purls.

This construction is intriguing as the back and forth is what is what is making the ‘short rows’ that build up the back of the neck. Where I joined and the work is very skinny will be the front neck. I am not sure I have ever built one this way, so I’m interested to see how this works out

Next up for this project, I am in for inches and inches of raglan increases. But at least I will be in the round! Happy Knitting!!

Cast On: Bibliophile 2

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One of the tasks I accomplished at SSK was casting on the Bibliophile 2 that I was swatching. Swatch #1 was not succesful but I tried another size of needle.

My second swatch was more successful. I am within half of a stitch of the pattern gauge. My swatch was a little unconvential….but it works.

I didn’t realize the yoke of the sweater is worked flat for a minute. Not ideal, but I guess I can manage a few purl rows. In an SSK class I realized that I am a combination knitter and purl the English way. Hit me like a lightning bolt that is why my decreases lean opposite ways sometimes!

The more you know!! Happy Knitting!

Split For Autumn Gold Sleeves

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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!!

Slow Porch Mornings

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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!!

Autumn Gold Yoking

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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!!

Cast On: Autumn Gold Sweater

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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?

Pigskin Party Frog It Challenge

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Every year I participate in the Down Cellar Studio’s football KAL, the Pigskin Party KAL. In addition to knitting items for points the KAL also includes things called “interceptions” or side challenges. In October they had a Frog It Interception. And I had just the thing to participate with. This is my Stockinette Shrug I made back in 2012. It was my first “real” sweater and made from some Berroco Vintage DK. I never wore it after I took FO photos. It’s too big, not flattering at all, and not easy to style.

So I took this pile of wrinkly sweater….

And turned it into this….

I lost a little bit of yarn cutting into the bind off and dealing with where the ends were woven in. And I haven’t weighed this yarn yet to see what I have left. But it should be a little over three skeins of DK. The next step for this will be to wind them in to hanks and give them a good wash and whack to relax the yarn.

I have no designs on what I will use this yarn for next. But for now I’m happy to have an unhappy FO returned to the state of happy yarn. Not to mention earning a few points for the KAL!

Happy Knitting!!