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Frankie by Kim Hargreaves from Breeze knit in Rowan Classic Pima Cotton in Badger {more details and pictures}
Sometimes I forget to write about my knitting, which feels pretty silly considering this blog first started as a knitting blog. But this weekend I finally got around to getting some pictures of a cardigan I’ve been wearing constantly since I finished it back in December. Meet Frankie. {More}
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My dad’s sweater is done, and I’m completely in love. Of course, it looks ridiculous on me, but I had to try it anyway. I can’t wait to see his face on Christmas Eve (and I promise to coerce him into modelling the sweater for me). For now, I’ll pack it away, and concentrate on my next Christmas knitting project.
And that’s officially my 9th sweater of the year.
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I haven’t been wearing jeans lately, but I’m loving knitting up my dad’s sweater with denim yarn, even though it’s been turning my fingers blue. If you haven’t used denim before, it shrinks 10-15% in the first wash, and then fades beautiful as you wear and love it. I love the transformation, as seen in the picture below of one washed and one unwashed sleeve (no, that’s not some trick of the light or camera).
While the deep indigo colour is beautiful to begin with, I think it takes on a much more interesting character when it’s washed. What you can’t see in the picture is that the fabric, which originally was quite loosely knit, also firms up beautifully in the shrinking process. Cotton often gets a bad wrap in the knitting community because it can be inflexible and hard to knit with, but I haven’t had a problem with the denim. At the end of the day, I think the results are worth the list discomfort anyway.
On a side note, the Elann yarn I’m using recommends a hot wash then round in a hot dryer. We don’t have a dryer, the hot water tap on our washing machine is broken, and I’m much too lazy to go to the laundromat. Instead, I improvised, and soaked the finished pieces in the hottest tap water I could get before chucking them in a cold wash. The yarn bled like crazy in the hot water, and the pieces shrunk up as expected.
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Something that I’ve been meaning to blog about this the beginning of the year is NaKniSweMoDo — National Knit a Sweater a Month Dodecathon. Basically, you knit a sweater a month for an entire year for twelve finished sweaters by December. In January, I was in love with sweater-knitting, and I knit several sweaters in quick succession. I finished six sweaters in the first four months of the year before I quickly lost interest and abandoned the project. I’ve blogged two of the sweaters as FOs, but I never got around to blogging about the project.
With my newly revived interest in knitting, I’m planning to get back to it. Right now, I have six finished sweaters, six sweaters in various stages of completeness, one newly cast on sweater and two sweaters that I have yet to receive the yarn for. Yes, that adds up to more than twelve. Hopefully, I’ll be able to squeeze out a dozen sweaters before the 31st, but it’ll be tight. Wish me luck!
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