progress report
Just showing off my lovely aran projects. I seem to have a thing for cables right now...
Here is the Aran duffle. I've lightened the picture a little so that you can see the cables better, but in real life the yarn is really black with speckles. Actually quite soft to work with, comparetively...
This is Breezy cables from Interweave Knits Spring 2006. I'm skipping the bobbles in the middle of the diamonds. The rib cables are hell to knit, especially the left-turning ones. But thankfully only every 10th row. Yarn is Rauma Vamsegarn, as inspired by Marika's recent post about the same yarn. (She was thinking Aran Sweater from Norsk Strikkedesign.)
Lastly, just a swatch for a design in one of the books I mentioned yesterday, Vogue Knitting Library "Fair Isle and Textured Knits". This is Casual, Aran-style Sweater from 1978. I think I finally found a design for that slightly coarse, but lanolin "oily" yarn from Bartlett. The only questionmark is the sizing, because it's not quite clear from the pattern instructions whether the measurements are for the finished piece or actual bust. (I'm also looking at Oblique from Knitty for the undyed version I have of the same yarn.)




