Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Fall into a Routine

Happy Autumn, Everyone! (Or at least everyone in the Northern Hemisphere). I celebrated the first day of Fall by pulling out a top that I had finished back in July. Yes, July. I bought the yarn at my LYS's Beat-the-Heat sale and whipped up the sweater in about a week. Now that was 2 months ago (to the day), and I'm just now taking pics. I guess the main reason is that the darn thing is made of wool. And I didn't want to wear wool in a Texas heat wave--not even in the air-conditioning, not even for a quick photo shoot.

Today the calendar said Autumn, and we did have a bit of a cold snap (and by "cold snap" I mean that the temperatures were not in the 90's), so I put it on. In fact, I wore it all day, and I really like it!


The pattern is Wendy Bernard's Ingenue top, from Custom Knits. More pics are on Rav and in the gallery. The yarn is Cascade 220 Superwash. The put-up for the Superwash is different than the regular 220; it's a loose ball rather than a hank. I'm not sure why they chose to make it this way, but I loved being able to pull it out and get knitting right away with no need for a ball winder. Yay! But as you get close to the end of a ball, you do end up with this floppy thing:


I am indebted to Debbie for showing me that I could use those mesh bags that small tomatoes come in to help keep my yarn from misbehaving. Voila!



I had gotten out of my usual knitting habits, but I'm back to my routine of knitting for a spell before bed. I had also moved away from my garment-knitting to work on my chicken-lizard-horse menagerie, but I'm back to the clothes again. I cast on tonight for a new top, which I'll save that for another post.

10 comments:

  1. What a gorgeous sweater! By the way, I asked someone one time about the ball versus hank of Cascade 220 and they told me it is so one does not mistake superwash for regular 220 when buying the yarn. I don't know if that is true, but it sure sounds good to me :)

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  2. Wow, your sweater looks so good! I have the book and I love the pattern...now I'm thinking that I need to make one for myself so I can look as good too!

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  3. Your pullover turned out beautifully!! great job, it's gorgeous.

    - Julie

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  4. Your Ingenue is very pretty. Your neckline turned out very nice, I think it is dicey on some I've seen. Lovely color too. Inspiring, I may need to make one!

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  5. Very pretty! I love the color and the neck and hem details. Is it just garter stitch?

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  6. Love the short sleeves! I'm now inspired to sew the neck down on mine and get to wearing it.

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  7. Pretty! The neckline turned out so graceful.

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  8. Beautiful! I love the color and the shorter sleeves. I still love my Ingenue and wear it all the time- I bet you'll feel the same about yours!

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  9. Chanced on your blog. Your Ingenue top is beautiful! Love the color.

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