Textured Knitting

This is the reason that there was such small progress on the Butterfly last week. I had to (really, I did, the needles made me do it) take her off my 5mm addi circular so that I could knit up Aura from the Rowan Calmer book. It's taken the best part of the week to knit it and then when it was finished, I looked horrible in it. I've given it to the nine-year old who can make anything look cute. Purple is so much more her colour....

I knit it in the round using Rowan Calmer. It comes out quite large - I strongly suspect that the model in the book must have a large safety pin holding back excess fabric to get the fit. It was my first experience of knitting with Calmer, which I enjoyed although I did find it easy to split the yarn when knitting but spotted it quickly enough. It feels good to the touch - a comforting squashiness (sp.? is that a word?).

Especially for Kris, here's a picture of the other side of the Textured Knits cover cardigan:

There's some interesting designs in this book. A bobble and cabled sweater in a jolly red merino Aran, a cosy chenille cardigan (this one may appear on my needles soon - I have a lot of chenille crying out to be used) and a big squishy sweater knit with a strand of Jaeger merino DK and two different coloured strands of Kidsilk Haze held together to knit an elongated stocking stitch - gives me a warm, soft feeling just thinking about it....

Posted by Anita at November 16, 2004 03:48 PM