The Maxfield Saga Continues

So, my Maxfield has taken me ages, and if you have been reading my blog you've seen pictures of it.

I do love this sweater. I think Amy Christoffers is amazing and her brand Savory Knitting has so many patterns I want to make. This sweater hasn't taken me ages as it's difficult or because there is just a lot of knitting. It's more because I cannot decide how I want it to look.

I was stash busting and ended up buying as much yarn as I'm using up, so that wasn't as successful as I had hoped. So this was my first colour play, trying to decide how to work this sweater without the variegated yarn. Navy, Yellow, Gold and Blue.

I found that the yellow and the gold was a bit much. 

So I decided on this stripe, dropping the yellow out entirely and then began the body to reflect that. 

Once the body was done I thought this front panel was too busy and wasn't entirely happy with this. It sat for a few days as I reflected on what to do. The body I liked, but the fronts needed some changing. 

So I swatched again last night. 

Which do you think I chose? 

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So this is the one I chose! I love that it reflects the stripes without being busy or as chunky as the body stripes. Now just wish me luck in not changing my mind AGAIN! 

friday nights in

I love a good Friday night in. Usually, after working all week I am not in the mood to go out on a Friday.

Today I set to work on my Maxfield, sorting out which colours to use. I have two balls yellow, one gold and one light orange... and chose to use the two I have the least amount of yarn for. Perhaps not my brightest moment, but the pattern only calls for two balls of the contrast colour, so lets just hope it all works out in the end!

I am using larger than called for needles, as I knit really tightly. Its a bit bigger than gauge, but this means that if I somehow shrink this baby it will still all be okay!

And voila! I think I might be in love already!

Sweater Progress

I'm making good progress on my Cobalt sweater! The picture is a bit horrific. 

You can see my horrible button markers - scraps of peach yarn, which goes lovely with the burgandy! This is the body of the sweater inside out, making sure the pieces line up as I knit them. You can just see the top of the back behind the left piece - I'm loving the diamond pattern! 

But the progress of this is definitely encouraged by my lack of anything else to knit. I haven't been back to my new room since I moved all my knitting stuff in last Tuesday. Maybe I can get the sleeves done and the sewing up before next weekend when I officially move in with my yarn supplies! 

Of course, me being me I have more sweaters on the brain.... Trying to decide which to do but I think this one is first: 

Agnes Pullover

Then perhaps one of these other ones: 

White Pine

Amanda 

And there are a few colours' I'm toying with! WHAT'S A GIRL TO DO!?