Got the Message

Some e-mails are more fun than others.  If you've ever shopped at amazon.com, you know that they data-mine your every move, and then send you mail suggesting that you buy other things just like the thing you already bought.  This morning I got a message from amazon suggesting that I should really buy some new knitting books.

Not a bad idea, I thought, and checked their list of suggestions

Call me crazy, but that one there at the very bottom looks like a real winner...

Seriously, is there anything more surreal than getting an email suggesting that you buy a book you have written?  Ha Ha.  Thanks Amazon!

Some Sleeves, and a Question

The JWS (Jane Wolff Scott) cardigan progresses:

Two sleeves!  Some things are just better in pairs.  Not that I remembered that as I was knitting the first sleeve entirely wrong.  Overcompensating for the negative ease in the sleeves of my first prototype, I left way too many stitches in this one, resulting in a frog, back to the armpit.  Which, if you are good at math, will tell you that I have actually knit three (3) sleeves for this sweater.  Not the appropriate number.  So it's a good thing that one of them no longer exists.

But the funny thing is, even in spite of that, this sweater is SO FAST to knit that I'm still time ahead, based on my highly scientific process of determining these things:  It feels like I'm getting done really quickly.

You know what's to love about this project?  It's not Rocket Surgery.  Now don't get me wrong; I'm as big a technique junkie as you'll ever find.  If it's got trickery, or thrill-seeking, or fiddle-factor, I'm there.  Usually.  But sometimes I just wanna make a sweater.  Without thinking too hard.  Or taking too long.  Or spending too much.

This sweater is that sweater.  

Which brings me to the question:  Shouldn't there be a pullover version, too? The only thing missing from this dreamboat is getting to work it in the round.  It could have a turtleneck.  Or not.  It could have waist shaping, adjoining the sexy side-cables.  Or not.  I could plug in a different 6-st cable in the raglans, just for fun.

Weigh in, Gentle Readers?  Should the JWS cardi have a daughter, who's a pullover?

Keep Calm and Kureyon

Here's a new little Easter basket you might like:

I decided to design a new project for my Elegant Entrelac class, and this is the result.  It uses two colorways of Noro Kureyon, or any worsted-weight long repeat color change yarn.  

If you're coming to my class at the Steven Be Fiberfest (Minneapolis, MN) in April, or to Bridge Knitting Guild (San Francisco, CA) in May, this is the pattern you'll receive at registration.

Can't make it to class?  NO problem!  CLICK HERE to get your copy.

Many of us still have cold weather, here in the USA, but that's no reason not to think Springtime Thoughts.  The colors of this yarn make me think of velvet-faced pansies.  And hyacinths.  And freshly-mown grass.  

And Chocolate Bunnies.