Persistent Knitter

I’m borrowing a book from a friend of mine that has the pattern for Landra’s Gloves.  The book was in pretty good condition except it had a page or two already trying to leave the rest of the book behind.  It’s an out-of-print book (as far as I can tell, although you can still order copies of it on Amazon), and I didn’t want to cause further damage to the book.

So I took the book to my local copy center, had them cut the binding off*, and put a spiral binding on it.  Voila, the book will now lay flat when opened and you can even close the book back on itself to see only one page at a time.  Best of all the pages will now stay in place!

How am I doing on Landra’s Gloves? (Which should really be named Nancy’s Gloves since I’m keeping them and not giving them to anyone named Landra). See?

* Yes, I got permission from the book-owner first.  She has other books now that she’ll probably do this to herself. :)

Sock differences

It’s been cold enough here lately to wear wool socks. The pair I was wearing yesterday had a slight difference between them:

I knit the one on the right first, and realized the pattern went way too far into the toe. I decided to make the pattern shorter on the second one, and not reknit the first one. Amazing, me not ripping something out! :)  They still feel great on my feet and work just fine. (If these had been a gift for someone else, I would have ripped out the first one or made the second to match)

Noro

I finally got this in the mail yesterday:

I’ve been perusing the patterns. There are a lot of great sweaters in this book. My first gripe is they don’t give schematics for the sweaters.  They do give actual sweater measurements and "to fit chest size" measurements.  My second gripe is almost all the sweaters seem to use bulky-ish yarn.  It’s too bad Noro doesn’t make a thinner version of the striping yarns.

Now I have to decide if I want a horizontally striping sweater/cardigan. (I’m not exactly at my skinniest right now)  The Hudson pattern is still my favorite, having a zipper closure and lots of ribbing to make it fit closer to the body without a lot of shaping.  However, it also has raglan sleeves. The only other raglan sweater I’ve made was Bob from knitty, and it really didn’t look good on me at all. (My mom now owns the sweater and it looks fab on her) I think that was more of a neckline style issue rather than raglan issue though.  If I pick a yarn that has more subtle stripes I think I can avoid (mostly) the "horiztonal stripes make you look fatter" rule.