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We are in a flurry of knitting here (frequently locked in two separate rooms with two separate groups of cats). I've knitted half the torso of my black tweed Aran grandpa cardigan and Wax has been excitedly knitting an extremely soft sweater for me with a batch of blue-faced Leicester that I had to buy because it was on sale, and we'd never tried it before. Blue-faced Leicester really IS all that! It's really soft and un-scratchy, and springy and cushy, so you can see where the comparison with merino comes from, but it's a little more wooly and substantial than merino.
Anyway, Wax had knitted ten inches or so of that, but we recently asked her niece who turned 18 and has finished growing to tell us what kind of sweater she'd like, because we want to make the sweaters of their dreams for all the niblings once they've stopped growing. (None of the others are quite fully grown yet; the triplets are next, but they're still sixteen so there's a few years to go.) Anyway, she gave very nebulous instructions but after thinking about it a bit Wax decided she wanted to try knitting with a strand of fingering-weight merino and a strand of lace-weight mohair silk held together, which is a pretty common/trendy combination one sees on Ravelry but not one we had attempted ourselves. So we bought enough of those for a long cardigan, plus a set of buttons and a new long circular needle and Wax cast on immediately, leaving my half-knitted sweater forlorn and alone on the table. (I said, "Surely you're going to finish my sweater first?" and she said "Surely? How many sweaters do YOU have?" and it's true that she's finished three sweaters for me in the last six months.) Possibly this cardigan could be finished to give the niece on her 19th birthday in May.
This black Aran cardigan is almost entirely covered in cables and there are crosses to work every other row, and the last sweater I finished before it also was cabled (although over far less of the fabric), and basically I'm really sick of cables at this point and am definitely going to do lace, colorwork, and guernsey (knit-purl texture patterns) for a while after this to recover. But I want to wear this sweater too badly to set it aside.
Anyway, Wax had knitted ten inches or so of that, but we recently asked her niece who turned 18 and has finished growing to tell us what kind of sweater she'd like, because we want to make the sweaters of their dreams for all the niblings once they've stopped growing. (None of the others are quite fully grown yet; the triplets are next, but they're still sixteen so there's a few years to go.) Anyway, she gave very nebulous instructions but after thinking about it a bit Wax decided she wanted to try knitting with a strand of fingering-weight merino and a strand of lace-weight mohair silk held together, which is a pretty common/trendy combination one sees on Ravelry but not one we had attempted ourselves. So we bought enough of those for a long cardigan, plus a set of buttons and a new long circular needle and Wax cast on immediately, leaving my half-knitted sweater forlorn and alone on the table. (I said, "Surely you're going to finish my sweater first?" and she said "Surely? How many sweaters do YOU have?" and it's true that she's finished three sweaters for me in the last six months.) Possibly this cardigan could be finished to give the niece on her 19th birthday in May.
This black Aran cardigan is almost entirely covered in cables and there are crosses to work every other row, and the last sweater I finished before it also was cabled (although over far less of the fabric), and basically I'm really sick of cables at this point and am definitely going to do lace, colorwork, and guernsey (knit-purl texture patterns) for a while after this to recover. But I want to wear this sweater too badly to set it aside.
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