Themme Fatale

Welcome back! I somehow managed to get a pink eye infection Tuesday morning (I blame the gross people at the gym who didn’t wipe down the equipment – who does that?), but I wanted to take a moment and talk about what sweaters I have on the proverbial needles, where they are in the process, and if I need to make any changes/fixes before I can keep working on them. My next posts will be the sweaters I have the yarn for but haven’t started and my currently-in-progress-but-hopefully-finished-soon Shirt No. 1 by 100 Acts of Sewing.

Sweater #1 – Seaglass Sweater by Wool and Pine

This sweater is close to being finished. All I need to do to finish it is knit one more sleeve! But the process for knitting this is… challenging, especially in summer, because all the yarn is in leftover balls in a milk crate, and you’re holding a whole colorwork sweater in your lap while you knit the final sleeve. Mine is a little more structured of a pattern, because I wanted to limit myself to a color palette (though the original is gorgeous, obviously), so my colors A are blues and greys, and my colors B are oranges and browns. The only other thing I need to figure out how to change is that the neckline knit as written is gigantic, and I’d like to undo the neckband (which is what you knit first) without creating a huge headache so I could both decrease the number of stitches and knit in a smaller sized needle.

Sweater #2 – Lita by Bristol Ivy

This sweater would be close to finished if I hadn’t messed up the epaulets and just kept knitting in denial anyway. I’m knitting this in an olive green that is a little less yellow than the original, but for some reason I had it in my head that the wide parts of the epaulets are toward the armhole, and then when I figured out I had messed up, I knit the edging for the neck and armholes as well. I need to rip everything back to the epaulets and set them right, and then I can finish up this tank, which would be a great layering piece over dress shirts and high-waisted pants.

Sweater #3 – Shoji by Norah Gaughan

This sweater is the closest to the starting point, because I have 90 more inches of that beautiful textural fabric to knit before we do any sort of assembly. I’m knitting it out of a cotton/linen blend in a light blue, and it will also be a great layering piece, especially in the summer where it is warm outside but chilly inside with the A/C running. I love too that you can wear the sweater with the wide ribbed collar around your neck, or reverse the sweater and have that be the hem of the sweater.

I’d like to finish Seaglass soon, because the weather is just starting to change, and I suspect I’ll be able to wear it often once the summer heat finally dissipates from the city.