It, or maybe the giant CONE of wool I'm designing bits of Aran goodness with, have also pushed me toward nonmonogamy. Here is what I've done with the two skeins of Noro Transitions I bought:
Sleeves, in a simple lace pattern lifted from part of an Interweave Knits pattern somewhere. (Note the small wad of zombie-flesh-colored yarn I removed from both skeins just before the sleeve caps.) I like these sleeves, but they do seem to lack something. What is it? Oh yes, a body. These sleeves were meant to be a shrug. Damn. So I've bought some gray chunky cashmerino to deal with that, but the sleeves hibernate while I get on with my real obsession lately...
What is it? It's a swatch, but it's a swatch of the one thing I started knitting for... a custom-designed Aran. You're looking at [a swatch of] the right side of the front, where I've tested the way my cables grow out of the neckline.
Things I know about the design so far:
- It will be done top-down, FLAK style, starting with narrow plaits acting as mini-saddles.
- It will have set-in sleeves, also top-down but probably just sewn in rather than done with short rows.
- From outside to center, the cables are
- of my own design,
- mirrored Windblown Cables from Barbara Walker's Third Treasury of Knitting Patterns, and
- Annie Maloney's Cable 59 from her Cable Knitter's Handbook.
- The V-neck really will have a simple rolled-under edge, since that puts the emphasis on how the cables grow out of it.
I'm happy to leave some of the design for later in the project. I have ideas for the sleeves and the side panels that I'm hoping will be good, though. This sweater may or may not be a tour de force, but it will be a tour de as much force as I have. This is the thing I've wanted to be working on since pretty much the day I picked up needles.
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