I giddily drove to spring my new-to-me Robin wheel from the Post Office at lunch. It is chilling in the back seat of my SUV, where he/she has been taunting me all afternoon from the parking lot ready to leave the cardboard prison. He/she would like to come out and play, but I have to work! His/her call is getting louder the closer it gets to quitting time - only a half hour more my sweet! Bwahahahaha
Winging it's way to me from it's previous home in New York - 6 yr. old
Priceless
Six plus inches - March 7, 2008
I'm knitting Lizzy from the Naturally Noro book in Noro Silver Thaw in colorway #9 for my Mom. She spotted a sample at one of the yarn shops in Nashville when I was visiting over Christmas. Lucky for me the store did not have the number of skeins I needed to make her the sweater - they had one, I needed 4. I found it online at littleknits.com for half price - yippee! I ordered 5 skeins because we wanted to lengthen the sleeves (which are written as 3/4 length). I have finished one front and am almost thru with the second. I've tried really hard to match the stripes - as much as you can with Noro. When I told her that the stripes would not match, front to back, because it's a cardigan and the stripes would be narrower on the back than the front - I think she kind of freaked. She did not remember that it had any stripes. Wonderful. I emailed her a few finished pics of sweaters I found thru Ravelry (flickr pics). She didn't really like the one in her yarn. Too dark, too purple, too much brown. Wonderful. At least I initially bought this book a few years ago, because I liked this sweater. Just hadn't knit it yet. Obviously changed my mind for some reason.
Mods - I knit an inch of seed stitch hem because I didn't want the stockinette rolling hem. I've made slight waist shaping - at 5 inches I added a waist decrease, then another after 6 rows. I knit 12 rows then added an increase and another after 8 rows.
It's really hard to photograph this color. It's much more subtle in person.
Just one
Left mitten has been frogged back to the wrist - too big.
