Ruthless Knitting Archive

Since I last posted, I’ve finished the back and left front of the Middlebury cardigan, so the time came to pin it together to see how it fits. These shots are courtesy of my new camera, a birthday gift from my parents. It has utterly transformed for the better my taking-pictures-of-knitwear process. It focuses! It gets the colors right! It lets me take a hundred pictures rapidly so that I can get two good ones without wasting half an hour! Anyone who has ever tried to take pictures of knitwear will understand that these are sufficient reasons to love the camera deeply. Those who do not regularly take pictures of their knitting are excused for rolling their eyes or chuckling quietly at my expense.

Unfortunately, the new camera can’t do anything about the fact that I didn’t manage to take a shot with my face in it that I could post here. The problem was not that I made funny or unflattering faces, it was that my hair is so horribly in need of cutting that I just couldn’t bear to look at it straight on. Luckily, I have a haircut scheduled for later today. Next time I take pictures, I promise that my face will be in them.

With both fronts and the back completed, I’m on to the sleeves now. I’m knitting both at the same time, and I’ve managed to get the cuff ribbing done, but the road ahead of me is long. To keep from posting boring sleeve progress pictures for the next week or two, I plan to entertain you with book reviews and a record of my agonizing over buttons. Picking out buttons for a dark purple, green, and yellow cardigan is tougher than you might think. Luckily, I have David to advise me. He is excellent at discerning which buttons are the right ones.