Handmade and Loony

There's a seam there. I'm knitting the button bands today.  Wait until you see the buttons I have for this baby.  Handmade and loony, but perfect for this sweater.

Meanwhile, the mystery knitting is indeed a Trinket scarf from Kim Hargreaves.  I bought it the day the site went up, and while I was surprised when the kit arrived that it was but a wee bit of KSH and some beads, and the bias-knit scarf itself is hardly a mystery, but I was re-inspired by Jane's finished version, so I've forgiven Kim's people for charging me so much for the post. It's true what Jane said about this being a knit that eats time, a real Red Queen kind of scarf, where you have to keep knitting furiously just to stay in one place.  And to respond publicly to Kat's dread of such things, I'm not finding the switch between needle sizes to be troubling, but I do really dread each row of p2tog through the back loop.   

In local trivia: I opened the paper yesterday to a story about how local craft stores were expecting more people to give handmade gifts this year for the holidays (click on the Lifestyle link in the center column), and there, in the how-to section of the article, was the instructions for a sweet and cozy twisted stitch hat, designed by Alison Green Will. She's only been on the North Shore for a couple of months and already she's a star!  Go Alison!

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving. 

Comments

[liz]

Did the pattern include one or two skeins of KSH? I'm very curious as to how much her patterns turn out to be. There are a couple of patterns I really like, but that I could (and should) figure out on my own if properly motivated. How hard can it be to design a slightly asymetric cardi with deep ribbing?

[Alison]

Between the local paper and being mentioned by Mason Dixon Kay, I think I've used up my 15 minutes this week! Thanks for the plug...