I have finished the Cable Sweater from Vogue Knitting Fall 2005.... Finally

Not that great of a picture, but here it is.

Pattern: Cable Sweater Vogue Knitting Fall 2005

Yarn: Rowan Big Wool in color 24, Cassis and Rowan Kidsilk Haze in Marmalade, here is a closeup of the yarns together:

Needles: 15 US Denise Circulars

Started: After Christmas before New years.

Finished: 1/15/2005

I am really happy with this sweater, I have worn it already and love it. I wish I would have gone down another size of needles for the cable on the cuffs and bottom. It also probably needs to be blocked again.

As everyone else has joined Kim's stash along, I have decided to enhance my stash to catch up, not really but I do have yarn envy. I tried on Saturday to enhance with Cyn she was along for the ride, after the Saturday meeting at Borders. She was good, and I was not near as bad as I would have liked, leaving Strings with the beginnings of Spork, and another ball for my cable sweater from Vogue. We dropped by Knitted Peace as well but left with nothing.

Oh but Sunday I made up for it. Wanda told me about a sale at Strawberry Tree, so I headed over. Once there I realized I needed to hit the ATM to cover all my stash. Conveniently so, Wanda busted me by walking in (and seeing me in the same cloths as she did Saturday, but come on it is a Sunday right?) as I was gathering up to pay. Yep that is 56 balls of yarn. Hey at 35% off how can a girl enhancing her stash resist.

I am hoping possibly if the yarn works out to use the Brown Jo Sharp DK Wool tweed for the Rogue. If it won't work then I am sure I will find something else for it. Once I got home I started looking through books to see if the yarn I bought would work for the patterns I wanted to knit (I know that is all backwards). I think I might need more yarn of most of them to get anywhere, unfortunately. The sale does go until the 15th!! I think going forward I need to keep a list of "things to Knit" and their gauge with me so I can buy more responsibly. I have a couple ideas so far. I have officially out grown my current way of organizing yarn (big 5 gallon or so ice chest looking tubs, you know you see beer in these often). Hopefully the move that is looming in February or March will help fix all of that.

I think I successfully missed all the good yarn sales, too bad it wasn't on purpose. I tried heading out Saturday to see if there were any leftover sales, no real luck. Unannounced closures at the Knitted Peace I was really hoping for some left over sales there. Strawberry tree was closed for Inventory, so I ended up at String briefly but did not end up with anything, nor were they having a sale. La ti Da had 25% off of everything, but the selection was limited, I did get some Calmer, in a tealish green, a book and some sock yarn (this will be my first sock attempt). I did hit a few on line sales, got quite a few book on sale. I also bought this Vera Bradley bag, I hope it is not too big and I should have gone smaller. Now I just need somewhere to take it. The Donut Maker (my boyfriend) and I were also out the day after Christmas looking at such bags and came across a luggage sale, so hey why not. But I got him to throw in another bag I will use for knitting as well. I hope I can get some good use out of both of them pretty soon. So you seem my dilemma in not joining Kim's stashalong. Being a newish knitter, and not getting sufficiently prepared I just couldn't do it, right? If it is any consolation I did from September until Christmas last year without buying any yarn other than Christmas gift stuff. So there is my justification.

The Christmas knitting was finished in time, minus the scarves for my sister, mother and sister-in-law. One was complete but I liked it so much and was not sure it was something any of them would wear so I kept it. I was also going to possibly give the so called scarf away but it was not finished, and the same goes, my female family member's seem to be very conservative. And well no one oohhed and awwed over the so called scarf while I worked on it Christmas day. Seems to me then it is mine. I have 3 scarves to show off that are finished including the "So called Scarf" I am not sure I shouldn't rip it out but I think I am the only one that will notice the mistakes. I have another two skeins ofManos del Uraguay in coloryway 114, any other scarf ideas for it?

It didn't seem like I had a lot of time to knit last week, between Avalanche and the Nuggets, family crap and all. But this weekend has been all knitting, well almost. I have been working on the V-neck pullover from the Fall Vogue. I am liking it so far, easy to knit. This picture is from last week, I know have the back, one sleeve completed and the other sleeve started. I am not going to do the frilly edges, instead I have added a rib around the bottom and sleeves. I have also been playing with the idea of starting a Clapotis with some Interlacement yarn I picked up in Estes this year. Anyone know how to get that smell out of the yarn?