The Safety Pin Stage
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.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:28 am
Ooo, the colours you picked for that sweater are so pretty. Especially the purple.
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:25 pm
I was just thinking that the sweater complimented your hair color perfectly, and the blog shifted to your hair/haircut. Beautiful outcome so far. Looks great with jeans. (New jeans for a slim silhouette?)
October 3rd, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Your Middlebury Cardigan is looking GREAT Ruth! Good luck with the sleeves and buttons. Tad’s good at that too - much better than me
October 5th, 2007 at 6:29 am
Excellent colors. I’m sure you’ll find the right buttons. I’d go for harmonizing with the purple myself. But there might be a less conservative route that would work. In Boston we’re lucky to have Windsor Button Shop, where the search for the right button can be a great way to spend an afternoon.