Happy Return of WIP Thursday!
Every other Thursday I’ve been sharing my knitting progress over the past 2 weeks, but this got derailed with my trip to the US - BUT WE’RE BACK!
This is what my WIP pile looked like the last time I shared my progress like this - this was from Sept 29th!
And here is what it looks like today.
BUT let’s come back to this!
I finished my Flock Pullover! It worked out perfectly because I packed 3 sweaters for my trip and finished this one the first week I was gone, so then I had 4 sweaters! How’s that for packing?!
And I wore it A TON! It’s perfect for just throwing on, and it really matched all that beautiful scenery through the Midwest and Northeast! These pics were taking in the backyard of our AirBnb outside of Rhinebeck! Matched perfectly!
I started my Flock/Antipodes class this weekend and everyone is working through the back yoke right now. I’m planning on getting this class back on the schedule in March - just hit reply if you’d like me to notify you when it opens for registration!
I knit and mostly finished this Lumme Pullover with the rest of my knitting time in the US! HOW CUTE IS THIS SWEATER?!
If you took a class with me this weekend, chances are I looked JUST LIKE THIS! I wore my sweater all weekend and it was great!
I used BC Garn Loch Lomond, a new to me yarn, listed as worsted at Kelbourne Woolens but for sure a DK weight - I was on size 5 needles! But that was ok - worth it for this cutie!
I started teaching this class this weekend, too, and added another session of it starting in January if you are #influenced!
And now we can circle back to that WIP pile!
It’s been a while since I knit Shane a sweater, and I was thinking he would like a new sweater for Christmas! I presented him with this Dagmar Zipper Sweater as an option, but he said, “no thank you I’d like another fair isle sweater! This time a cardigan.” And pulled up this wild cardigan as his inspiration!
I created this color mock up in Canva and we headed to the yarn store!
We did pretty well! Ideally we would have been able to find a more medium green as the main color, and then get a dark green as that first CC, but beggars can’t be choosers so we ended up swapping a light, minty green for that dark green.
And truly, the timing of this couldn’t have been better*! I started my Design Your Own Fair Isle Sweater class on Saturday, so I was able to plan the sweater, swatch, and work out the starting math with my class.
A bit of chart planning based on the picture, and I was ready to go!
Which brings me back to this! The scale of the motifs are a little different, but it’s for sure in the spirit of Shane’s inspiration sweater, and looking great! And fun to knit!
So! Everyone is happy and I’m excited to keep designing and knitting up this sweater!
WHEW alright, marathon update today! If you made it this far - thanks for reading! Happy knitting, friends!
* by the timing couldn’t be better I mean in terms of the class only! Did I come home with literally HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS of yarn from Rhinebeck? Of course I did! Never enough yarn! haha
