I was on my knees in the hallway closet, I think making room for the ladder so so I could climb up to the attic to look for some holiday stuff, when I noticed that I was eye to eye with another one of my plastic stash bins. Somehow this particular bin had managed to hide itself a couple stories above the tower of bins in my office, and as out of sight would have it, it was well out of mind. Good thing I noticed it. Good thing they are sort of transparent. I think it was the sight of a couple schacht bobbins that caught my attention. I’m always hunting down bobbins. But the really good part of this story is, that if I hadn’t opened the bin, I’d have spent untold hours hunting down some handspun that I’d been thinking about lately. There was a lot of it, nine skeins. I knew I’d made a sweater’s worth a few years ago.
Back then, I hadn’t come up with a match for a pattern and had stored it away until.. well, whenever. But, then a few weeks ago, I’d started thinking about knitting the Everyday Cardigan. Cindy had worn hers one Tuesday night, and it had gotten me thinking about some others I’d seen. It was perfect for this yarn. Both in texture and color, there is a lot going on. It’s not soft enough to wear close to the skin. A warm cardi, something to be worn over a long sleeve shirt, perfect. And the pattern had to be simple. Between the darkness and the irregular patterning of the colors, any stitch work would probably get lost. I swatched. I started.
I talked it over with a few spinner / knitter friends at a guild meeting Saturday. It’s a boxy pattern. I needed to and have added, a few short rows at several intervals along the back to keep it from having that gap effect.
I could have been decorating Podo. So far, he’s got his lights. Step one.
16 responses to “onto another project..”
I love my Everyday Cardigan although I do wish I’d made it a tad longer. That yarn looks perfect for this pattern.
I love the yarn, it will look beautiful all knit up!
That blue yarn is fabulous and will be great for EC. Will you show Podo completed?
It looks so different swatched up than as a skein. What a fun discovery!!
Lovely yarn.
What pretty yarn!
Nice tweedy yarn. Worked out really well, rather than going out and buying some yarn and THEN finding the handspun.
What delicious yarn – it is looking fabulous knit up, too!
The yarn is beautiful and will make a great Everyday Cardi. I can’t wait to see it all done up.
That’s a nice sweater. I really like it. How nice for you to find some handspun. That color is just gorgeous and the sweater is a perfect vehicle for it, as you really couldn’t add any type of texture to it.
That yarn is gorgeous. And what is that fabulous tree? That can’t be a Norfolk Island Pine?
How interesting–the yarn doesn’t knit up at all the way I’d expected it to, based on that first pic. It looks like a tweed, but knits up sort of Noro-like. Cool.
I love my Everyday Cardigan. I lengthened mine a few inches, and I think it was a good modification to make.
That’s some really gorgeous yarn.
It IS a good thing you spotted it, that yarn is toooooo beautiful to sit in a plastic bin! I’m happy it will become an Everyday Cardigan…. and be properly admired 🙂
Love the way the yarn is knitting up. Nice cardigan to wear with jeans.
I really like that yarn your knitting the sweater with.
great blue tweed look.Looks darker knit than in skeins or is that just the way the camera shows it?
Mary Ellen