What a Life!

I got my yarn for knitting St. Brigid – Cascade 220 color 9332 (sapphire) – on April 20th and cast on that weekend. I also got yarn to make a sweater for Steve – charcoal grey Cascade 220.

Here is St. Brigid in all its glory (three repeats finished in this picture, four repeats finished as of last weekend):

Isn’t it pretty?

And here is the sweater I’m making for my dear husband whom I love very, very much:

Does that look boring to you? It’s boring to me. Plain old stockinette stitch. Elizabeth Zimmerman hated purling – I hate stockinette. I’m doing it flat so at least I have one row of knitting interspersed with one row of purling. Still…

Steve said he likes the Galway Guy sweater that I made him. And he does wear it as you can see here (Christmas 2006).

But he told me that what he really would like is a plain sweater with no fancy stitches. That’s why I say I’m doing it only for love. As of this weekend, I was halfway up the armholes (I hadn’t reached the armholes yet in that picture).

Before I started these projects, I would have told you that St. Brigid is the kind of knitting I love to do and the Charcoal Slogalong is the type of knitting I loathe. But I must confess, they go rather well together. The cable pattern in St. Brigid is so complex that even after doing it twenty times, I still do not have it memorized and am depending quite heavily on the charts. Since both sweaters are taking approximately the same amount of yarn (I ordered nine skeins for each…we’ll see), I’m working on them skein for skein. I’ll do half a skein or so of one, then play “catch up” with the other. And I must confess, they’re like yin and yang – they balance each other pefectly.

Remember these socks that I said I was going to make from the holiday gift issue of Interweave Knits (2006)?

Here they are in all their glory:

Last night I started knitting Monkey socks by Cookie A. She has her own website with a number of designs…yes, a number of designs I want to make. I think she should have a book published – maybe she has one in the works that we don’t know about, I don’t know. I just think her patterns are amazing and that some publisher should make good on that. Just saying is all…

So there are my three current projects – two sweaters and one pair of socks. I’m still trying to get some UFO’s done. Last week I managed to buy buttons for the little blue sweater for Jackson, but I haven’t put them on yet. Maybe this week…