Jofrog is Knitfrog!
September 14 2005
Thank you all for your nice comments yesterday. I am really pleased with that little sweater... so much that I'm diving back into a Bouton d'Or book to start this: Before I even cast on I found problems in this pattern. Not HUGE problems, like the fishy sweater, but more sloppy problems. Specifically mislabled charts and incorrect translation. It's a good thig for them that their patterns are so cute! Separate from kid knitting is knitting for me of course! Do you have a "dream yarn"? Some yarn that you really want to use, but you have to find the perfect project for it before you do, because anything less than perfect would be an insult to the yarn? Calmer was this yarn for me for a while. Finally I found the Sirdar lace cardigan and it was a perfect match. Felted Tweed, (Yarndex has the wrong color card) was one of these yarns for a long time. It got scratched off of the list a few weeks ago when Alison was looking for yarn for her next sweater. She was looking at the FT and then at the Silky Wool as a substitute. Silky Wool is my desert island yarn. I would knit with it all day and all night forever, so realizing that it's a substitute for Felted Tweed made me realize that I really don't need to work in the FT. Scratch. A third "dream yarn" is 4-ply Soft. Oooh 4-ply Soft! Today is the day that some comes home with me to be made into this: It's "Missy" from Rowan 31 done in 4-ply Cotton and Lurex Shimmer. I'll use the 4-ply Soft and it will be my holiday sweater this year. If you are going to see me around the holidays at any sort of holiday event, you will probably see this little top! First things first though, off to the Post Office to mail off my sock pal's socks! I can't wait to get a pair myself. If the knitter that has me is reading, thank you in advance, I'm so excited to see my socks, I'm sure they will be amazing because they were knit for me! Next!
