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and the winner is…

Posted on | January 2, 2009 | 11 Comments

Heather (seel87)!  Who didn’t link to a blog, so I’m guessing that she’s blog-free!  Heather, I’ve emailed you for your snail mail address!

Thanks to all for commenting!  And thanks for ALL your comments ALL throughout the year – I definitely wouldn’t be doing this if it weren’t for you guys. 

Speaking of doing this…I am already off to a slow start for NaKniSweMoDo.  For the past several years, we’ve had family over for New Year’s Day brunch, and this year was no exception.  So for the past week I’ve been cleaning and straightening and getting the house in order and haven’t hardly had time to knit and yesterday when the pistol shot signaling the start of NaKniSweMoDo rang out, I had to ignore it.  I had other duties.

This is our standard New Year’s Day menu:  Potato Boursin Frittata, a huge pot of black eyed peas, an ungodly amount of Sauteed Spinach with Peanuts (seriously, I think we used 7 bags of spinach leaves), and Sgt. Britty’s incredible buttermilk cornbread (he adds a can of Rotel – that’s what makes it special!).  We serve a different dessert every year; this year it was Chocolat Pots d’ Creme topped with whipped cream.  Unfortunately, I don’t have any pictures of the food because not everyone knows about the blog and they might certify me if I pulled out the camera and started snapping photos of dessert.  I was really tempted, though!  I did snap a pic of this cutie:

Onto the knitting:  the swatch in the previous post is the Harris Tweed Stitch pattern for Veronik Avery’s Weekend Pullover, and yes, Laurie, it would make a WONDERFUL scarf!  It’s easy to remember and lies flat.  Perfect stitch for a scarf.  And even better – if you don’t have the Fall 2006 issue of Interweave Knits, the errata for that issue contains the instructions for the Harris Tweed Stitch, so I have no pangs of guilt about posting it here!

HARRIS TWEED STITCH – Multiple of 4 stitches +2

Row 1:  *k2, p2, repeat from * until last 2 stitches, k2

Row 2:  *p2, k2, repeat from * until last 2 stitches, p2

Row 3 and 8:  knit

Row 4 an d7:  purl

Rows 5 and 6:  repeat Row 1 and 2

Repeat rows 1-8 for pattern.

The yarn is Adrienne Vittadini’s Martina, a 70% wool, 30% silk yarn on Webs’ closeout.  It is lovely.  At $7.95/ball, it’s still rather pricey for a sweater, but that’s why I put it on my xmas list!  Thanks, SB!  I do believe I’ll order a few skeins in the sagey green color for a scarf.

However, I don’t know if this will be my January sweater.  I love Veronik Avery’s designs and my Notre Dame de Grace is the ONLY set-in sleeve sweater I’ve made that doesn’t have sleeve cap issues.  My hesitation stems from that stinking albatross around my neck – my weight.  The Weekend Pullover is a lovely, classic sweater and (1) I’m not sure I want to knit it in the size I currently am and (2) I worry the design won’t be flattering.  Not that many people have knit it according to Ravelry, and the folks who have made it are rather small.  Perhaps I should save that pattern for next Fall, after months of working out and eating properly, which is, of course, one of my resolutions for 2009.

What do you think?  Should I go for it, knowing that I’ll likely have to reknit it in a year WHEN my get-in-shape plan has gotten me in shape?  Or should I start the year with a design that will still be wearable even after I lose weight, perhaps Twist or Cassidy?

Decisions, decisions.

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