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.

Progress

Here's the layout of my Cranberry Chutney quilt.  It hardly looks like cranberry let alone chutney.  I need a new name.  The photo is not great.  The blues are pretty accurate, but you can't see the warm beige of the contrasting blocks. Ah well.

I now have 2 rows sewn together.  It goes very quickly since I don't have to match anything except for the points of the block.

Now what to make next?

Bardy's quilt

Bardy was a very dear friend. I was one of his opera dates, and we went to many concerts at Lincoln Center.   He passed away a year and a half ago.  I was so pleased when his wife asked me if I could make a quilt from his shirts.  And here it is!  The pictures don't do justice to the fabric, but trust me, the quilt is so lovely. 

As I was going through the shirts, I realized that turquoise was a main color.  So, Bardy, here you are.  I hope that Sue Ellen can curl up under your quilt and feel you there.

Happy all new projects year!

I kind of fell off the radar since the beginning of Chanukah.  What with holidays, company, dinners, all the usual frivolities of a combined season of Chanukah, Christmas, and New Year, I just forgot to post.  What I finished is not photographed:  3 pairs of socks for Little Kid, a sweater and some mismatched socks for Miss P, etc.  I finished the Bardy quilt, but I haven't photographed it yet.  I'm moving at a snail's pace these days.

But, I'm happy to report 2 socks on needles, both for me, a top-down sweater on fingering wt yarn (takes forever) also for me, a scarf for my SIL (needs 2 more inches), and I just finished all the blocks for a new quilt.

Ta da!  My take on the Cranberry Chutney quilt.

Mine is done in muted blues and creams, not my usual crazy color choices.  I had a bunch of blues/cream fat quarters that had been marinating on my fabric shelf for centuries.  I saw this pattern and thought that this would be fun to do, and it was.

So here's my pile of 64 blocks, just waiting for me to lay out and sew together.

And that's where I am.

Happy Chanukah!

Our favorite menorah, with the first night's candles.  The shamash (that's the one held by the Statue of Liberty) lights the other candles.  The first night's candle is right by the Immigration sign.

Happy Chanukah to all!

Snow

Our first snowstorm of the season.  Taken from our sunporch and through the screen door.

A good day to stay home and knit.

What's New

A finished sweater, a sweater with 3" to go on the body, and the last full row of the Whirligig quilt.  That's enough for the moment.

A cable sweater for me.  Started toward the end of Aug and finished about 4 weeks later.  Ordinarily, a sweater like this takes me 2.5 - 3 weeks, but we were away, so very little knitting done.  This top picture is the sweater before blocking.  Notice how different it looks once it's been wet blocked.

Me, being silly:

A new sweater for DD2.  Fingering weight yarn with a lace panel.  When blocked, that panel will measure a bit over 5".  It just looks small here because all those stitches are on a 24" circular needle and squooshed together.  Trust me, a good wet blocking will open it all up.

And of course, the Whirligig quilt!  I'm on the last full row, with 2 more blocks to be attached.  Then I have to do the borders to square it all up.  Finally, it will get a solid border of something or other that I need to buy.

And a pretty leaf on my deck.  Don't you love the veins?