More Blue Things

One of the very few things that I don't like about being a knit designer is that I don't get to knit for myself very much anymore.  Almost all my knitting time needs to be spent making samples, and samples need to be knit in a smaller size than my 40" bust.  But! I found myself in between projects recently, so I started knitting on a Gawain of my very own.  It is blue.

I'm knitting this version in the round - and I'll post notes about my changes in case anyone else wants to knit it in the round instead of flat as it's written.

Meanwhile, I realized that if I'm going to be working on a sweater for myself, I really should finish up my Jaali, which I intended to wear to Rhinebeck last year... until I realized that I couldn't go to Rhinebeck, and really didn't have time to work on this anyway.

Here's the complete front, which I finished recently; I'm now working on a sleeve.  It is slow going.

Sadly (well, sort of), I have to get back to sample knitting... I have a linen wrap cardigan that I designed last year but needed to re-work the fronts on, and put aside when it became clear that I wouldn't have it ready for any warm season last year.  Picked that up again today, and I'm hoping that I can publish that one this spring or early summer. 

If I get the energy to knit that sweater a second time, in my own size, I have yarn for it, and that yarn is also a lovely blue.

The last sweater I completed for myself was Hermia, which is also blue.  And of course there were my La Borgia gloves (see last post).  Blue.

The next thing I'll be starting is a pair of socks for a magazine, and the color they picked?  Blue.

Blue looks really good on me (matches my eyes).  But I'm thinking next time I knit something for myself, I should probably branch out.  Maybe it will be purple.

Comments

[TeresaC]

Oh no, keep knitting blue...

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[JulieM]

How is the Gawain sweater coming along? What yarn are you using? I love that blue! Are all the other blues progressing nicely or are they stuck in what ever place all those things get stuck in?

[Tara]

I can't wait to start knitting my Gawain. I'd love your notes about converting it to knitting in the round, I'm terrible at sewing.

[Alison]

Thanks, Tara!
I'm up to the armholes on mine, but I had to stop to work on some other things. My plan is to knit the sleeves up to the armholes, then join them all and knit the yoke all together. But I don't know when I'll get to return to this project - several other design projects are taking up all my knitting time.

[Kay W]

I, too, would love your notes on Gawain in the round -- seed stitch is a bear to seam.