Knitting in November

The yarn store opened yesterday, and I–unsurprisingly–didn’t get any writing or reading done last night. Here are my thoughts from yesterday.

We failed, I think, to take pictures of the new sweater and other things. I wore another sweater, there’s at least one picture that I’ve spotted on ravelry of the shop that I’m in. More pictures as the come. Thanks Jackie for this one, I hope it’s ok if I put it up here:

Ok, So I’m the tall blurry one whose back is to the camera wearing the nordic-esque looking sweater.

Being in the yarn store all day encouraged some sort of perverse desire to knit plain sweaters. There are a couple of yarns that I have my eye on. Mostly I’m thinking of Cascade Venezia Worsted, a lovely silk and wool blend, and some Lorna’s Laces Superwash. This is weird, because I don’t really enjoy making such plain sweaters, and what’s more I’ve sort of sworn myself to a constrained palette, as a creative/artistic experiment. No matter, there are a number of things that I have to finish before I will even think about starting a new project, and I’m thinking that it might be February before I get to that point.

The Latvian Morocco sweater deserves a new picture, and is now… 13 or 13.5 inches long. I have about 4-5 inches to go before the underarm point. Because the sleeves are going to be set in (and saddled), the rows will get a bunch shorter at that point, and it’ll go faster. Also, because the saddles are going to be really wide, and I mean real wide (like 8 inches total, 4 front and back), there’s not a lot to the yoke section of the sweater once I get there.

In any case, I’m taking a break from that sweater to knit a sleeve to finish a red and black plain sweater that I started in May or June. It’s worsted weight Patons Classic Merino that I bought to knit a sweater on commission that never came to fruition. So I made the sweater for myself. It’ll be a cozy one to wear once I finish it, but I’ve been dragging on the sleeves for months, and I’ve finished one of them, and I hope to finish it this week. I have a lot of Law and Order stored up for this purpose.

That’s about it, on the knitting front. I have today off of work, and I have a bunch of writing and reading things to do, but I’ll probably be in touch with some non-knitting related thoughts later in the day as I have them.