Tuesday 13 May 2008

Pick up stitches

Ever since I first bumped into Bridie on Anna Bell's beautiful, eloquent blog, I've been anxious to knit it. The pretty stitch pattern, the striking shape of the fronts - the details of this design make it both pleasurable to knit, and lovely to look at, while its quietly classic beauty mean it is likely to play a regular part in my wardrobe for some time. Anyway, KnitKnit arrived as a Christmas present, the mountain of Wool Cotton I'd been collecting urged itself as a summery sub for the Karabella Aurora suggested by the pattern, and I cast on.

In the world of some knitters, casting on at Christmas would mean a cardigan by, ooh, Easter. Not me. I made it almost all the way up the back before filching the needles for another project:

Meet Quilty. Quilty is bottom-up tank knitted in twisted rib and smocking stitch. Quilty is the product of my own beknighted brains. Quilty was racing along to the shoulders until the moment that my husband said, "so, what are you wearing to the wedding in two weeks time?" At which point I remembered Bridie, hunched in the knitting bag waiting for someone to supply fronts, bands, buttons, sleeves etc etc. So the plan for the next fortnight it to finish her - not a wildly overambitious plan, but still pretty daunting given that she'll be my first major seaming job.

In other news: my knitblogging skills are now in the pay of Yarn Forward Magazine, where I'm posting behind-the-scenes news and work from readers. If you're reading this post after my massive internet hiatus, do come over and say hi...

5 comments:

florencemary said...

Nice to see you back, Ms Webbo! And thanks for the link to the Bridie cardigan (I've missed that one...).

I'm sure the YF blog will benefit greatly from your knitblogging talents!

Linda said...

Hello! How nice to see you back. I didn't realise it was you on the YF blog. :) Bridie is so nice, you must finish it!

Sarah said...

Good luck with Bridie - it's a gorgeous pattern

Love that KnitKnit book

Donna said...

Great to see you back! Congrats on the YF blog.

Anonymous said...

Call me too tired to see the obvious.
Have you posted the pattern for Qulty yet?
Are you going to? (please, please, please)

(I've already clicked on the Yarn Forward link - and that didn't take me anywhere at all.)

Happy knitting,
Janey
janeyknitting AT yahoo DOT ca