This year's first snow arrived only a few hours early and I enjoyed spending most of the day watching cars try to get up the hill opposite my kitchen window. It was almost a year ago when I lasted posted about preparing for Christmas. This year has been quite different for my family and myself. We've had some ups and a few downs but I'm knitting again and that's all that matters to this blog!
I decided, after having posted last December, that I was going to wait until I got the camera I wanted before resuming the blog. A couple of weeks ago, Paul and I, with Mom's help, purchased a Nikon D3100 DSLR camera with lots of bells and whistles. And guess what. It's red!
And so, here I go again with yet another new project.
This V-Neck, with cap-shaping in the sleeves, will be perfect for Paul to wear while he spends most of the winter shoveling our 35-foot driveway.
The Manly Sweater is from Debbie Stoller's
Stitch 'n Bitch. The pattern calls for main body color with contrasting bands in 2 other bold colours. However, I chose.... rather, Paul chose that it be in one colour only. Actually and to tell the truth, Paul chose that it also have a large black widow spider intarsia-ed right in there!! I led on like it was going to happen long enough to knit the back and up to the arm hole shapings in the front...
I'm using Paton's Classic Wool, single ply, in dark grey. One good part is that the entire sweater, in 4 parts, can be knit on one set of needles. I'm using a bamboo 24" circular in 4.5mm (or #7). The sweater has a fun ribbing of Knit 5, Purl 1 repeat which gives it the interesting wrong side view seen below and the smooth stocking stitch right side with the subtle parallel Purl rows.... sigh...
I'll be finishing the first sleeve and then have to move on to a more URGENT Christmas project but should be able to return to Paul's Manly Sweater before too long if all goes well.
And, if all goes well, my next post should highlight said Christmas project!
HAPPY SHOVELING!
