The Comfort Zone

 I give you Ivy the second hat, done in Austermann merino
  

and Fake Isle the third hat in Malabrigo.  I’m loving it!  Fair Isle where have you been all my life?  Can you believe it, 40+ years and I have never done stranded knitting before.  I get into a serene rhythm as I flick back [...]

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 I have started the sleeves of the blue sweater, and have hope that I will be able to wear it before spring.  Sleeves don’t take long, right?  Then there is the two inches of ribbing around the neck and down the front.  I think I will make only one button hole just where the cabled [...]

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I always expect to learn something with every new project, but as my journey into the world of Fair Isle began over the weekend an amazing learning experience came about.  I was told and I read that it was easier to carry one color in the right hand and another in the left, using a [...]

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Everyone I have talked to says they dread the onset of the “Christmas knitting season.”  The time of year when every knitter thinks to themselves, “Self, Aunt Mable asked me to knit her a felted eyeglass case to match the iPod case I gave her last year.”  (Yes, Aunt Mable has an iPod—she’s with it).   [...]

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The knitting goes on with the blue sweater.  The Something Red sweater in blue merino.  It morphed into Mr. Greenjeans when I first laid eyes on those cute little cables along the bottom.  I am not a fast knitter and sweaters take what seems to be forever to finish.  Nevertheless, I have resolved to knit [...]

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