{"id":904,"date":"2012-07-12T14:51:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=904"},"modified":"2012-07-12T14:56:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:56:19","slug":"three-sweaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":"Three Sweaters"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week or so ago, I realized that I have been knitting for\u00a050 years<\/em>. \u00a0I don’t really know if it’s this year, or last year, or next year, since I’m a bit fuzzy on exactly how old I was when my grandmother taught me. But it is somewhere near my\u00a0half<\/em>–centennial of knitting<\/em>….my\u00a0golden jubilee<\/em>. \u00a0 I need a celebration!<\/p>\n

What would make a better celebration than knitting a project, or projects, that are truly captivating…. enthralling….\u00a0compelling<\/em>…. not to mention beautiful!<\/p>\n

I’m already knitting one that has kept me happily intrigued for a couple of months now. \u00a0It is a pattern by “Nadita<\/a>” called “Soo Feminine<\/a>.” \u00a0It is a fun short row technique called “swing knitting,” which has been quite popular in Germany for some time and is certainly taking off in popularity here now too.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This might be even more fun to knit than it is to wear! \u00a0But I won’t know that until I finish!<\/p>\n

Another project jumped into my arms while I was visiting Harrisville Designs<\/a> on my recent trip to New Hampshire: a Vivian Hoxbro kit! \u00a0All of Vivian Hoxbro’s<\/a> kits, which use Harrisville’s “New England Shetland,” were on sale for 30% off original prices! \u00a0I love Vivian Hoxbro! \u00a0Her designs are flattering on me, and the knitting is\u00a0fun,\u00a0<\/em>involving color changes and multi-directional knitting.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This design is called “Ann” and can be knit as a jacket or vest. \u00a0I’m doing the jacket in the purply\/plum colorway shown on the vest above.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And lastly, there is\u00a0Alice Starmore<\/a>, queen of color! \u00a0This is her “Mary Tudor” design. \u00a0What I love about it (aside from the obvious, duh!)– \u00a0all her designs are a masterful blend of colors on a design that perfectly balances the horizontal-ness of the knitting and color changing with a strong vertical-ness to flatter the body–but as I was saying, what I\u00a0love<\/em>\u00a0about this particular jacket is the button band and collar, which depart somewhat from traditional Shetland design. \u00a0I think those two details make this sweater absolutely elegant! \u00a0 \u00a0Decades ago I knitted her Oregon cardigan in the blue colorway. \u00a0It is probably my most precious handknitted item.<\/p>\n

Aren’t all these sweaters\u00a0beauties<\/em>?<\/p>\n

“Soo Feminine” and the “Ann Jacket” are on the needles now. \u00a0The yarn for “Mary Tudor” has arrived and I’ve been sighing and moaning over all the little balls of precious Shetland wool.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But the pattern book has not arrived.<\/em>\u00a0 Wouldn’t you know I have almost all of Starmore’s books, but not\u00a0Tudor Roses<\/em>. \u00a0Ugh! I cannot believe I’m one of the suckers who paid over $100 for a knitting pattern book. \u00a0I had to do a lot of justifying to make peace with that. \u00a0You know the rationalizations, I’m sure! \u00a0It’s less than therapy, it’s better than some other addictions, it’s feeding my creative spirit…etc…etc…\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0it’s part of my golden jubilee celebration!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A week or so ago, I realized that I have been knitting for\u00a050 years. \u00a0I don’t really know if it’s this year, or last year, or next year, since I’m a bit fuzzy on exactly how old I was when my grandmother taught me. But it is somewhere near my\u00a0half–centennial of knitting….my\u00a0golden jubilee. \u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}