Ruthless Knitting Archive

I had hoped to be finished with my Fana pullover by now, but the week kind of got away from me. I had a bunch of meetings to go to, and I started reading a book that totally sucked me in, so I didn’t get too much knitting done. I did manage to complete the first sleeve by last Sunday, and I have about three-quarters of the second sleeve done, so that the sweater currently looks like this:

The ivory yarn that came from Knit/Purl last Friday is a perfect match for the yarn I was already using (same dye lot and everything), which was a great relief. Judging by how much yarn is left here at the end of sleeve 2, I am barely going to have enough of the colors to finish the sweater, and if I hadn’t managed to get that second ball of ivory yarn, I would have been sunk.

Now I just have to finish the sleeve, knit both cuffs (probably in the strawberry color with a green edge), pick up and knit the placket (probably in white with a strawberry-colored edge), duplicate-stitch a snowflake pattern on the shoulders and at the top of the arms (in both colors), sew down all the steeks on the inside, weave in my ends, sew on the buttons, and I’ll be all set.

Hmm. That list didn’t sound as long in my head as it does now that I’ve typed it out. Maybe I won’t finish it this weekend after all.

Earlier in the week, I did manage to get a fair bit of knitting done on the T-topper while sitting through meetings. (Fana is too bulky and awkward to travel well.) The front piece is now about 10.5 inches long. It’s narrower than I would like, but I think it will block to size. I didn’t want to make the pieces too big, because I’d like this top to fit closely, and the silk content of the yarn will cause it to have less memory than 100 percent wool would have.

I feel some distaste for the word “T-topper,” so I think I’ll call this project the “Tokyo top,” after the Interlacements Tokyo I’m using.

Here’s another close-up of the stitch pattern, which I love beyond reason.

Meanwhile, I have been daydreaming about my next next project — which is to say, the project I will start after I finish the Fana pullover and the Tokyo top. I can hardly wait to get going. I’m going to use this.