Basketweave socks

Yet another pair in my favorite pattern:  basketweave.  I use this all the time because it's mindless, works well on any yarn, and because I love it.  Sock Madness starts in a bit over a month, so then I'll knit crazy exhausting loony socks.  But not now.  Now I'm into brainless feet.

Yarn is Miss Babs Hot Shot, can't remember the colorway. The actual color is more intense. 

And a sweater is finished!

Ta da!  Finished, washed, and now worn:  My top-down yoke sweater in Estrellita yarn from Miss Babs.  Fingering weight.  #3 needle for everything but the top ribbing and the bottom and sleeve ribbings.  Those are done on #2 needles.  Took me about a month to knit.  I'm very fast but with a lot of stitches and skinny yarn and needles, these fingering wt sweaters take forever.

This is based very loosely on the Spector sweater by JoJi Locatelli.  I used her increases and how she integrated the various yarns. My version has a different yoke, no patterns on body or sleeves, and I widened it out at the waist and about 4" below that.  So, 4 sts increased at the sides for the first increase, and then another 4 increased later on.  I like the slight flare, and in my old age, I've gotten blubby, so increasing the width makes it not snug below the waist.  Or something like that.

A new yoke sweater

Bad picture, since I cannot get the greens to come out properly.  So it goes.  Played with my camera and my phone, and this is the best.  Meh.  Much more green at the top and very dark at the bottom.  Good thing I don't make a living from photography.

This is a top-down yoke sweater, based loosely on the Spector sweater by Jo Ji.  I know that it looks impossibly skinny, but it isn't.  I'm just working on a 24" long circular needle, so the 37-38" of sweater are all gooshed together.  I'm usually a 37" sweater, but wanted this to be a bit looser.  It fits, 'cause I tried it on.