Pickin' and Throwin'

 Greetings and Dear Cynthia,

WOW, a blog post!  My first since, um, September 12, 2011, I think…. Back then, I was working on Christmas sweaters for my two little boys, using the Beth Brown Reinsel guidelines from her book Knitting Ganseys to design and knit each of my sons a Gansey sweater.  

Update:  I got the sweaters finished before Christmas that year, the boys wore them many times, outgrew them, went off to college, and I stowed the sweaters in boxes in the basement to save them for a time in which there may be children around again who would fit into them.  I guess a lot happens in 12 years.

I’m currently working on a giant mentally consuming sweater called the Affogato Cardigan from the Spring 2023 issue of Interweave Knits.  

https://ravel.me/affogato-cardigan

It’s coming along nicely, and I’ve found my little mistakes soon after making them, so far have not had to rip back more than a row or two…. Here is a partial left front (which has since been completed), a sideways back, and a sleeve in progress:

Enjoying some time off from work right now, just wanted to see if I could still figure out how to post something here.  I have been organizing my WIPs, and ran across a color work Christmas stocking which is almost done, original pattern, thinking about how on earth I could post it on the blog…but answered that question today with this post!  Fingers crossed that it will show up on the Blog after I tap the “Publish” button!  Easy peasy.  :-)

Happy New Year, have a blessed 2024!

Laura