Knitting Projects Up for Grabs

[firstfrost]

I'm getting close to done with everything in my "for real" knitting queue, including one Secret Project. Does anyone want anything? I make no claims on speed, I think it took me two years to get to doing the squid hat for kelkyag,, but if it's something for someone's kid, I will certainly attempt to make it sized for the kid at the time it's done rather than the time it's requested. :)

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[desireearmfeldt]

Hee!

I find I don't have strong opinions about things like cables -- that is, textured patterns like that are cool and differentiate one sweater from another, but are not something I have much forward imagination about. (So, if there's a pattern it would amuse you to make, I'll probably like it.) I tend to focus more on color (mostly, my opinion there is: jewel tones!).

Thanks! :)

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Some things with cables, if any of them particularly catch your eye:


Classic:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/foothill-road-aran
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/aye-aye-captain
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/inishmaan
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/on-break
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/kilkenny

Odder:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/oblique-5
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/torque
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/kimono-styled-sweater
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/reallon

(I seem to be on a "hood" kick recently, too)
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-archer
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/gwendolyn-3

Oo! Pretty pictures!

[desireearmfeldt]

See, this is totally why I'm a sweater-boor: all the "classic" ones look equivalent to me. I mean, I can look at them side by side and describe what's different about them, but they all just read as "nice cable sweater" to my eye. :) (I thought, without checking, that "on break" might be the same pattern as my current Observatory Sweater, but no, no popcorn bobbles.) Any of those would be nice, but to choose among them I'd mostly have to throw darts.

The kimono one is very pretty but not ideal for a sweater whose purpose is to be As Warm As Possible. Ditto the Archer.

The ones with the floppy necks are less my sort of thing.

Reallon looks pretty but I can't quite tell from the pictures what the whole thing looks like (what happens at the waist/stomach? (And how empire-waisted is it, really? Hard to tell.)

Gwendolyn is kind of cool -- I have a strange fascination with hoods, though I can't quite decide whether a wooly sweater with a hood is Cool or Weird. :) It might be just the thing for tooling in a cold house, though it might be less practical for wearing out in public (or under an outdoor coat). Hm...

Re: Oo! Pretty pictures!

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Well, okay, the classic ones are pretty similar, especially since I was looking for "wide central cable" to counter the "little central cables" for the grey sweater. :)

Hmm, maybe I will go with Inishmaan, since I have that pattern, and because it has popcorns in it (which I think are silly but now popcorns are the Andrea Sweater Thing) and because if I make Norway for Jan then they will be from the same book!

(Unless you decide that hoods are the way to go after all)

Re: Oo! Pretty pictures!

[desireearmfeldt]

I didn't mean the comment about the popcorns to express an opinion either for or against them -- I'm fine either way. :)

I think, tempting as the idea of the hood is, it's probably not actually the thing I want.

Thanks! :)

[twe.livejournal.com]

If you want cabled, hooded sweater, what about http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/vivian