Knitting update, sans photos.

I have now finished the Western Jacket (sans fringe, because I am not western) in my favorite shade of yarn, and it looks gorgeous. Seriously, I thought this was going to come out looking crappy, but it really looks NICE. I wore it to work today, and it's cute as the dickens. I've got about a month to wear it before TEH COLD takes over, so I'll have to wear it a lot!

Alas, I can't show y'all any damn photos. *cry*

Next, on to the Candy sweater. Though I have kind of a dilemma with it: I don't like 3/4 sleeves, especially in cold weather. (There's no point in wearing a sweater for warmth if your arms are cold, and if it's warm enough for me not to need the sleeve, it's too hot to wear the sweater.) I have JUST ENOUGH yarn left over from the scrapped sweater in the light purples to make the pattern as written. But not enough to make the damn sleeves longer in lavender.

I am debating: how bad and ugly would it look if I subbed in another dark purple to add extra length to the sleeves? Would it look ridiculous?

Probably, right?

In other knitting news, new Knitty is up, and I am eyeing two patterns.

This one is quite lovely, BUT: the yarn she uses is hand-made by the designer, cashmere, and costs $38 PER SKEIN. Okay, so they're huge skeins, but my gawd, who can afford that?! It'd be $142 for me to replicate that! *chokes* Must find substitute if I ever do that one.

This one makes me drool.

And reading this article makes me want to try some kind of sweater like that with all of the (new) stash of worsted weight yarn that I got from where I volunteer.

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[velmalikevelvet]

hi, great blog! if you are really interested in knitting up the "to drool for" sweater, i've started a knitalong for intolerable cruelty skirt. go HERE to join. cheers! velma