The body length is 15", so you can just imagine the soporific effect this has had on me. On the other hand, it's great TV watching knitting. It's so mindless that you can pick it up while waiting for your tea water to boil. You don't have to think at all. All stockinette except for the last st before the front and back of the sweater; that's done in purl to make a fake seam. I almost always put in a fake seam. Looks kind of neat, and helps me find the "seam" line when I block the sweater.
So, the body is now done and put aside to work on the sleeves. Yep, more motoring along except that I'll have to pay attention to increases every inch or so.
And here's the great book!
I'm an old hand at stranded knitting. I did tons of it around 25 years ago, so much that I burned out of it and haven't done much at all until now. I do have hand and wrist issues, which stranded knitting will annoy, but a yoke design is only at the top of the sweater, and the teeny bit I'm doing as a border on the body and sleeves doesn't count at all. In a moment of lunacy, I had tossed just about all my Fair Isle and Scandinavian books. I had to buy my 2 favorites on Amazon: Sheila McGregor's Traditional Fair Isle knitting and her Traditional book of Scandinavian knitting.
These two are my basic stranded knitting books because of the incredible charts in black and white which are so much easier to read than color charts, plus you get to put in the colors you want. I've owned a number of very beautiful Fair Isle books, but once you understand the techniques, it's all easy peasy. So then this gorgeous book comes out and I'm totally smitten. I don't really need all that info on color, but you can always learn something new and anyhow, the pictures and ideas are amazing. It's available on Amazon, Knit Picks and Schoolhouse Press.
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I always wish I could knit like that - it will be so nice when done!
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