actual knitting!

Posted on | May 13, 2009 | 22 Comments

My Ariosa Cardi is finished! 

SB and I sat out on the back deck last night and I hunkered down and got that sucker finished!  My t-shirt says “normal people scare me,” in case you’re wondering, and yes,  I do wear it in public. 

My photographer left this morning before I could rope him into a backyard photo shoot, so for now all I have is this craptastic mirror shot:

I’m wearing it today!  Hurrah!  If it’s not raining tonight, I’ll get some better pictures and THEN I’ll count it as an FO. 

In other knitting news, I have finished one sleeve of the Abstract Jacket and barely started the second sleeve.

I simply haven’t had the time or attention span to read charts right now, and so this sweater has to wait.  Plus, I have a sneaking suspicion that it might end up frogged, which isn’t great incentive to work on it further. 

My mindless sweater project, that I haven’t shown you yet, is actually almost finished!

It’s the Lion Neck Cardigan from Custom Knits, knit in Ella Rae Shibu, a discontinued silk/rayon yarn I bought from Little Knits for a song last year.

The silk is crunchy, it’s unforgiving, and it turns my fingers black, but man oh man, I love it!  The swatch took quite a few rinses to get all the black dye out, but it’s soft and well…silky, and has fabulous drape that I’m hoping will make this a sweater I wear all the time!

My goal is to get both these sweaters finished in the next couple of weeks because we’re going on vacation and I am a firm believer that a road trip requires the casting on of a new project! 

Where are we going on vacation?  Let’s just say that we’re creating our own version of Frontier House.  I’ll expand on that later.

Happy Wednesday!  Happy knitting!

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22 Responses to “actual knitting!”

  1. Carrie
    May 13th, 2009 @ 9:19 am

    Woo, it looks so great! I’m going to need a close up of the button detail.

  2. Cheryl S.
    May 13th, 2009 @ 9:21 am

    I love it!

  3. Cookie
    May 13th, 2009 @ 9:37 am

    Woo Hoo!

  4. Chriss
    May 13th, 2009 @ 9:48 am

    Oh, great cardi!! Love the colour.

  5. Nora
    May 13th, 2009 @ 10:28 am

    Very pretty!!

  6. barefoot rooster
    May 13th, 2009 @ 10:40 am

    oh, lovely. all of these sweaters make me want to squeeze them through the screen. the color of that shibu is incredible!

  7. Tina M.
    May 13th, 2009 @ 11:54 am

    That cardigan looks lovely on you, I can’t wait to see it in better lighting. Great job!

    And the silk sweater… oooh. Slinky.

  8. Sandy
    May 13th, 2009 @ 12:57 pm

    It’s beautiful! All of it! I can’t seem to focus on any one thing, so I hop from project to project. Great work!

  9. JessaLu
    May 13th, 2009 @ 3:22 pm

    Your Ariosa looks wonderful! Congrats on finishing!

  10. Anne
    May 13th, 2009 @ 4:49 pm

    Even the craptastic mirror picture looks pretty darn great – can’t wait to see the “real” pictures!

    Oooo – “like” Frontier House – more details please!

  11. Lynn in Tucson
    May 13th, 2009 @ 6:12 pm

    Ariosa looks lovely! What a great color!

  12. Lynn in Tucson
    May 13th, 2009 @ 6:13 pm

    p.s. Once again, I like the “real” sweater much better than the pattern pic!

  13. Kathy
    May 13th, 2009 @ 8:26 pm

    The cardi looks GREAT!

  14. Emily
    May 13th, 2009 @ 8:37 pm

    Great cardigan! You know it’s a good one when you want to wear it right away!

  15. Chris
    May 14th, 2009 @ 4:47 am

    It looks great! I really like the closure you picked out instead of belting it.

  16. margene
    May 14th, 2009 @ 5:45 am

    Whoa! You ARE knitting. Love the red cardi and can’t wait to see better pictues.

  17. Becky
    May 14th, 2009 @ 6:48 am

    I feel like such a slacker after reading your post! I have several projects I want to start knitting but I either have to spin the yarn first or dye yarn that I bought white. It may be a crappy photo, but it’s still easy to tell that cardi is gorgeous! Nice job!

  18. wendy g
    May 14th, 2009 @ 6:56 am

    Beautiful sweater!

  19. cyndy
    May 14th, 2009 @ 3:30 pm

    Verrry nice cardi!

    Frontier House?…rusticate?…for vacation??? Really!?

    Maybe we should arrange a house swap.

  20. Laurie
    May 14th, 2009 @ 7:29 pm

    Not such a craptastic picture, after all. And you make that cardigan look wonderful.

  21. Jen
    May 15th, 2009 @ 6:54 am

    The Ariosa cardi is BEAUTIFUL! I’m envious…I haven’t had time to do much of anything in the creative way despite a number of pattern books purchased to do just that. Perhaps in my other life…

  22. Tonni
    May 18th, 2009 @ 8:16 am

    BEAUTIMOUS!!! It looks wonderful on you!!!! Congrats!