So, the poor, poor Blood Orange Cardigan/Minimalist Cardigan has been resurrected from the dead! It took hours of careful, careful repair work. Actually, it was more like repair surgery. I learned a valuable lesson–when ripping out seams to re-set a shoulder, don’t use scissors, use a seam-ripper. Duh.
All I could while repairing it was think about how beautifully ironic it would be if it turned out to be a dud. I wasn’t convinced at first but I’ve been wearing it all day and I officially love it. It’s comfortable and the yarn–I am head over heels in love with Terra. It’s the perfect blend of fibers (60 merino/20 alpaca/20 silk): it isn’t itchy at ALL, it’s soft, has really perfect body and it drapes and shines like nobody’s business. The texture is all lumpy and inconsistent in a good way and the color…I wish my photography skills were better, it’s honestly jewel like. When I roughed up ends to spit splice I noticed that that core was pure bright white–it’s almost like the outside was airbrushed with the color. I don’t know how this would be done but it makes the yarn glow. This particular color (Madder) has all the shades found in a blood orange, hence the nickname.
We got a ton of snow on Thursday and it’s beautiful!
Speaking of beautiful…check out Adriana’s Gallery Jacket!! I love this version because it’s in an awesome Valley Yarn (Colrain, shiny!) and she knit it with long sleeves which is what I had originally planned. Didn’t get it done in time, but now we know, it works and it looks awesome!
This is Marion, she works at Webs and wears a LOT of fabulous sweaters. She is a reckless knitter, and I love it, a lot of her sweaters are improvised patterns and when I asked her what yarns she used for this Kaffe Fassett Poppies vest she just shrugged and laughed. I love it.
While I’m doling out shout-outs, look at Chloe’s adorable Foliage hat, complete with a hilarious tale of DIY circulars. I gave her a big bag of yarns that were just festering in my stash and the girl is whipping out FOs left and right! Awesome.
Oh…remember when I submitted designs to Knitscene? Well, one was accepted! I’m over the moon, of course, especially because Lisa picked my favorite submission of the bunch. I’m actually starting to feel comfortable calling myself a designer…
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P.S. Yes, my last title is a Griswold gem, I love the entire Vacation series, probably because I love dad humor. Puns, accidental slapstick, overt foolhardy enthusiasm, all of it.
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Gorgeous!
The pattern never attracted me, but I keep seeing so many gorgeous versions of it popping up around the blog world. I may have to reconsider.
Lovely sweater. I am glad it all worked out. Also, congrats on your design being accepted. That’s really exciting. Oh, and you version of Foliage is really cute. I hadn’t seen it before now.
Congrats on the pattern in knitscene! That is very cool!
I love your sweater! the more I see of that design, the more I know I need to knit it! I love the color of yours as well!!!
Aww, thanks for your kind words. I do love this sweater and plan on wearing it very often (as soon as I retrieve it from my parents’ house).
Congrats on your design being accepted!
Jagshemash!
The Blood Orange Cardigan looks great – so comfy. Hmmmm…something else to add to my Ravelry queue – I think that queue is starting to reach SABLE proportions.
Your co-workers sweater is awesome.
Congratulations! Skrilla Knit Designs Inc.
Looks like that Cardi was your London Rotary, “Look over there kids. Big Ben, Parliament. Look over there kids…”
Glad you were able to get back in the right lane and off the crazy knitting ride 🙂
congrats on the accepted design – I had no doubts.
Your cardi turned out great! I bet you’ll get a tonne of wear out of it. Love that colour.
wow. i was one of those people who was just not excited about this pattern. now i get it, yours is freakin’ gorgeous! i seriously adore the color. terra is some amazing stuff, i wish it didn’t contain alpaca, i’d love to use it.
congratulations on your knitscene design, i’m so excited for you.
Really like that sweater. Have been wondering if it would be something I would wear and yours has me leaning towards yes. BTW- I need you email addy to send you my address.
Cirilia, your Minimalist Cardigan is *gorgeous*. It’s good to know that the Terra works. I’ve been racking my brain thinking of what yarn I would like to use and I do love Terra. Are the seams bulky at all? I’m not used to working with aran yarns.
Congrats on the Knitscene! I’ll be in the issue too (under the Urban Medieval story). 🙂
And congrats on people making the gallery jacket. It’s so fun to see other people’s interpretations of your designs, isn’t it? 😉
Uh, you are a designer, woman.
A very talented designer.
Give yourself well deserved credit. 🙂
I’ve been wanting to make that minimalist cardi. Good save, love that color.
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