Oct 15, 2009

Ready To Go

Before I say anything else I should mention that these pictures were all taken by Stinkerbelle. She insisted and we had a blast of a photo shoot on Monday. I think she was just tickled to be playing with my Nikon.

Here's my Rhinebeck sweater - the Vine Yoke Cardi by Ysolda Teague. I knit it with less than 2 skeins of Miss Babs Yowza Whatta Skeins in Cadet Blue. Yowza is right. I really love the yarn and I'd knit with it again anytime. this is a really good thing because I still have about a skein and a half of it. Sounds like another sweater to me but I have to decise on a lucky recipient first.

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I loved this pattern at first sight and I still love it but it gave me fits. The revised version arrived as I was working across the back and it would've been so much easier if it had arrived just a bit sooner. It really does clear up a lot of stuff and it would've saved me a lot of worry.

Most of this knit moved along with nothing worse than periodic pit stops to decipher the pattern but as I started the second sleeve, I looked back at the first one for reference and flipped way. the. hell. out! Stitches had started to become unraveled. Much cursing ensued before I calmly (Hah!) put the problem stitches on a holder and went on my merry way - vowing to think about it later.

Later turned out to be this past Saturday when I drove like a crazy woman to my LYS and started yammering a mile a minute (no doubt the NewYawka in me coming out) about the problem I had to fix. Thankfully Denise talked me down from the roof and walked me through it. Really I just needed to talk it through and have someone who knows knitty stuff there while I made the repair I'd already arrived at. In the end we decided that I'd probably gained stitches when I did the button holes which threw things off but... I fixed my error by hiding the evidence and it all came out fine in the blocking. Yay!

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So if you see me at Rhinebeck this weekend I'll probably look like this. And if I don't say hello it's because I'm a ridiculous dork - not because I don't like you. I'm just weird like that.

5 comments:

margene said...

You'll be warm and beautiful. What a color!!

Sarah said...

The sweater is fabulous! Safe travels and have fun!

Carole Knits said...

The sweater looks wonderful. Sounds like you'll have to wear a raincoat over it, though. See you soon!

Allison said...

Lovely sweater- beautiful blue. Have a great time at the fest!

JessaLu said...

Lovely sweater!! I'm sorry you didn't get to show it off more at the fest :o( That is a beautiful color on you!