Fugitive Sweater!

It's finished! All seamed up and whatnot. I'm quite pleased with it. Ok, I could have made it a size smaller, but it's really comfy, and I think it will respond well to maching washing and drying. Here it is yesterday:



And a detail of the left sleeve:



I am currently a little freaked out because I don't have anything big that I'm actually knitting on. I guess I could knit the other half of the Wreck of the Old 97, huh? Or decide on a damn poem. I'm still kind of leaning towards the Crispin's Day speech. Anyone got another idea of a speech or poem or something a man might like to have on a scarf?

ooof.

You know, I haven't made a sweater in pieces in a good year, and oof, this sewing-up, it is exhausting. Set-in sleeves are kind of a pain in the rear.

And I still have three seams to go.

Sigh. What a buzzkill. :)

Oooh! Oooh!

The Glam Fugitive Sweater is half sewn together (it's taking forever, ow, my back) but I think, I really do think, that it might have come out exactly right. Ok, maybe the arm-hole is a little big, but I might be able to futz with that. The effect looks right, though.

Could I possibly be two for two with recent sweaters?

We'll find out tomorrow morning when I sew the rest of it together.

I'm kind of excited about this one!

manly colors?

Remember that trip to the yarn shop of a couple of days ago? Well. The store is lovely, with a big selection and good light and generally just all kinds of good stuff. If I had just been browsing, I don't know what might have happened. I might have had to sell a kidney or something.

Anyway, I looked at teal yarn, and was very very close to buying some Brown Sheep Naturespun, but then the Berroco Ultra Alpaca Fine caught my eye, and dude, I just love the way that stuff feels. So I bought some.



I'm still not entirely certain if the grey (which is going to be the letters of the Epic Poetry Scarf) will provide enough contrast with the green, but then again, subtle is ok, right? The purple-ish color (and they're pretty accurate) is for Important Words.





The next things I have to do are A) pick a poem, and B) decide how the heck to knit this. I've got that last mostly figured out. There's been some swatching. It's going to be a tube. But mostly I don't think dpns are the way to go here. I may have to do two circulars, which will mean purchasing two circulars. So now I have to decide what lengths I should get, etc.

However, all that is moot until I A) figure out what my brother's favorite poem is, or B) just pick one that I think anyone would like. Maybe I'll just do Shakespeare's Crispin's Day speech. That would be kind of awesome to wear.

fugitive sweater update!

Not really an update, per se. Just me realizing--fortunately only an inch or so into the first sleeve--that I really should knit both sleeves at once, and therefore make sure they're the same length.

I'm sure it would be very awesome and fugitive-y to have one sleeve longer than the other, but that would make me positively nuts. I do kind of want to put some kind of detail into one of the sleeves, but I'm not sure what. A random dropped stitch? A random cable of some sort? Just something small, you know.

If I knit the sleeves separately, I'll have time to think on this . . . but same-length is probably more important, right?

Right?

a good deed!

Last week or so I was twiddling about the interwebz, reading some knitting blogs, etc, and I came upon one that sounded interesting, the Knitting On Top Of The World Knit-A-Thon. I love it when people embark on mad, 'impossible' sorts of quests. Stuff even bigger than my Epic Poetry Scarf!

Anyway, when I read this post, I knew it had to be fate that took me there. Did you scroll down and look at that horse? That horse knit from a pattern that's in the book I learned to knit from? Yeah, I know that horse. Mine's blue. So I identified the book in the comments, and today (saving my truly crappy day, by the way) I had a thank-you package in the mail from Mary, containing some lovely grey Knit Picks Gloss Lace. Omg, so awesome.

Now I just have to figure out what to knit from it. (But I have to go to rehearsal first.) Thanks, Mary!

quick update:

Right. I've got the front and the back of the recycled fugitive sweater done! It's amazing how fast stockinette goes on size 11 needles. Especially when you've got a lot of train-riding and memorizing to do. (Only I really do need to check and make sure that the armholes are the same size. I counted, but we all know my counting skills are shaky.)

Here, this will give you the general idea. Not of my counting ability, of the fugitive sweater:



And today I might be heading to a 'new' yarn store (new to me) in search of yarn for the Epic Poetry Scarf. Have I mentioned that yet? I'm sure I have. Anyway, off to look for Manly Teal Yarn. Anyone know a good manly contrast color for teal?