EZ Green Sweater

I started a week ago, so far so good. I'll be ready to cut steeks in the next day.

Where have you been?

I will be posting soon. I bought a Condo in May, knitting has taken a back seat for a little while.

Icelandic Yoke

This only took 10 days. I love knitting with Lopi yarn. There is something about seamless sweater knitting and building your confidence. I have been knitting so many hats and mittens. I needed a fun sweater project to put me back in the spirit again. This did it. The fit is great and Lopi weighs almost nothing it's like wearing warm air.

Done

My opus is complete. It has been done for a couple weeks. After two hems, two button trims and hours of darning ends. Blue Sea is complete. At least my confidence in my abilities allows me to learn from everything I do and ripping out is not defeat just another opportunity to knit some more.

Not going to happen!!

I was planning on finishing this sweater for Christmas. I finished sleeve one on Friday night, I decided I don't need the stress of finishing a second sleeve and darn all the ends and block the whole thing in only a couple days. Oh Well.

Green Sweater

Sorry I haven't posted for awhile. Busy knitting, going to the gym and being sick the last week. Anyway I am thrilled to be one of the few who ordered quickly enough last Weds for the Elizabeth Zimmermann Green sweater kit from School House Press with the original wool like EZ used 60 years ago. I received the kit yesterday, I can't wait to get started. Regretfully it is 3rd or 4th in line right now. A couple gifts need to be finished and my annual Christmas sweater (Blue Sea) needs to be finished as well. For those who don't know the story of the Green Sweater I post more information later or you can visit Brooklyntweed's blog, he has the info there.

Purple with pink daisies

This is a knitting challenge I gave myself. Do a child's sweater with only my knowledge from EZ. I got the sizing right after one pull up back to the design, I needed to reduce stitches after the 2 color knitting. The sweater was getting wider which is not needed yet for a small child sweater. This is the first time I knit sleeves from the cut arm hole. It worked fine the the two sleeves are only off by one stitch. I may try again, but how do you know when to stop and make sure the sleeve is long enough with the shoulder drop? I used Dale of Norway. What beautiful wool, after blocking the stitches were perfect and had a nice shine. I had the ribbon in my stash to add the detail and cover the cut edge, which didn't look that bad.