Sweater Hound

So I have realised my blog has become one big hommage to knitted sweaters.

Aidez, Maxfield, Silver Jacket, the sock monkey one I plan to invent one day and yes, I have started yet another sweater. But first...

Here is my finished Maxfield. As it's been weeks and Ive been wearing it and have not posted anything! I guess because when I post on Instagram I get instant likes and feel like I've shared and then the blog has fallen by the wayside. (Me on Instagram = sfknits)

And the new one? The Blueberry yarn arrived and after paying an arm and a leg in customs (about $30) I finally got my hands on my alpaca amazingness. I can happily say Berroco Ultra Alpaca is super super super Ultra. The name doesn't lie, the price is amazing; I think I'm in love. Cables are super quick to knit, and I kinda love this pattern (Amanda Cardigan; Lene Holme Samsoe).  I really hope it becomes the most amazing sweater in the world! 

I really think I need to pull my real camera out and actually photograph this stuff....

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! 

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!?

and then i'm going to....

Last year my cousin bought me some knitting magazines and a needle case for Christmas. It was my first knitting related present, and I was thrilled. The magazines were full of clothes and ideas, and I had a place to store all those circular and dpns I suddenly seemed to have collected - awesome! 


And my other cousin, the other family knitter, warned me, "Once you make some clothes, you won't stop."


Pish pash, I hadn't stopped anyway! But clothes are an investment, of time and supplies. My piles upon piles of single colour skeins of wool are no longer relevant? How can this be? 


(I MUST KNIT FASTER). 


Enter my O W L S sweater. Yes, okay, that is nice to wear and it's super cosy. But now I'm working on my Aidez, and I can see the end of my Aidez cardigan in sight. Woot! Can't wait to wear it. 


So what did I do today? Order MORE YARN for a new cardigan?! What? Someone needs to restrict me from these things! Oh wait, that's what the boyfriend tries to do.... oops?


Anyway, here is what I plan on making next - but in burgandy!!!

Its a Kim Hargreaves design, called Cobalt.  I already bought the book (Indigo) when I saw it used already on Amazon so am excited to make this! 


After my other one is done, of course?