a rainbow sweater
August 28th, 2007 at 11:00 pm (kids-sweaters)
My daughter has been very sad that she doesn’t have a rainbow sweater. Since I was planning on knitting her a sweater for her birthday anyway, it’s perfect! I am using the “Supersize me!” pattern from The yarn girls’ guide to knits for older kids. It’s super simple, and exactly what I wanted to knit, and for once the gauge matches what I want to use. The pattern calls for doubled Koigu (expensive anyone?) so I’m subbing the Lorna’s laces worsted weight (not as expensive; but still spendy). The sock yarn shown in the picture might turn into a pair of rainbow socks to coordinate with her sweater. Here’s the progress I’ve made so far:
Isn’t that fabulous rainbow-y yarn? I hope i’ll have more pictures of the Alpine Lace shawl soon; but it’s still drying. It takes forever for things to dry here. I’ve sped up the process by adding a fan blowing directly on the shawl.
Blog it first, or Ravelry it first?
So I’m in ravelry and I’ve put this project in there as a WIP. I linked into my pictures in flickr, then I wanted to blog about it. It seems to me that I should be able to select a project, and say “blog about this” and it’ll let me pick the pictures to use and publish to my blog. For now I use flickr’s “blog this” button to do that from within flickr; but I can only choose one picture. I don’t like having to do updates at multiple locations. I suppose in Ravelry I’ll just update it when I get farther along; and I will only be linking in new pictures.
Jill said,
August 29th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Rainbowy but not sugary! What fun colors to knit (particularly after the dark shawl!)
Sheepish Annie said,
August 30th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Ack! I’m not even in Ravelry yet and my anxiety just keep soaring!!! It sounds so complicated…like homework.
That yarn is just perfect for the Rainbow Sweater! It’s going to be a winner for sure.