I get a kick out of reading people’s knitting blogs and learning about their work(s) in progress. I’ve picked up my knitting habbit again in the past month as well, so I figured I’d make my own. This time, I want to keep on knitting constantly, because I love how knitting makes me feel.

Right now, I’ve got two WIPs. One is a pair of fingerless gloves, and the other is a sweater.

The fingerless gloves are striped and green and yellow, and have a cable pattern going. This was my first time making gloves, and my first time doing cables. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy making cables is, and I learned my lesson in the difference of holding the cable needle to front of the work, as opposed to the back. The pattern is from Funky Knits, a book I picked out at my local yarn store here in Georgia.

Anyways, I got up to the gusset of the second glove and got sidetracked. Thus, I began my sweater. This is my first sweater endeavor, and it’s a pattern from Filatura di Crosa’s 2005 Zara/Zara Plus pattern book. I’m not making it in the merino wool the pattern calls, I’m making it in some Takhi Stacey Charles Cotton Classic, in Mossy. I’ve finshed the front and the back, and now I’m on the first sleeve. This was my first time doing KF&B increases, and it turns out I was doing them incorrectly for the ten inches, so the edges looked sloppy. Earlier tonight, I ripped the entire sleeve and cast on sixty stitches for the third or fourth time. This sleeve is going to be imacculate, I insist.

My mother taught me the cable cast-on method, but the women at our old yarn store in Michingan insisted on the double cast-on method. I love how the cable cast-on looks, and prefer it to the look of the sling-shot method, but the motions in the sling-shot method always had me wondering how they did it. I never attempted it until today, and I got the hang of it in about five minutes of studying Debbie Stoller’s diagrams in my Stitch & Bitch book. I liked how fast it was, but I made my stitches realy tight and hated having to hold two needles together, so I think I’m going to stick to the cable cast-on.

I’m going to go watch Conan O’Brien and work on my sleeve now, if you’ll exuse me.

I’ll post pictures as soon as I can, which, in other words means whenever I actually feel like it.