Its Green and its a Frog

Here is some more of my work in progress projects. This is a pattern called Pax by Patons. It's a sweater for a small boy and as I happen to have one of those I'm knitting it for him. I'm using some yarn from my stash as I have a lot of white wool, ok 1000g of it, that I got cheap on ebay and this will use up about 150 - 200 g of that. I'm also using some purple stash yarn that is probably Patons but I've had it for so long I can't actually remember now for sure. I don't have a label for it unfortunately. I've now finished the back and just started the front. It's knitting up quite quickly so hopefully this project will be sorted soon.




This is another project I'm working on at the moment. I'm using soy silk that I managed to find half price in a sale at the Knitting Parlour in Malvern. They only had two balls of each colour but as two of the colour variations had the same blue in them I've used four balls of two different colour variations in a 20 row stripe pattern. The blue pulls them both together and the different colour variations creates a bit of visual interest. The sweater itself is a pattern from a 1986 edition of Anna, Knitting and Needlecrafts. I've made so many projects from these magazines over the years and despite being from the 80s, a lot of them update quite nicely with modern yarn choices. I love the way this yarn is knitting up, it's absolutely gorgeous and so smooth and silky. I expect it will be lovely and comfortable to wear and perfect for the hot summer days I'm assuming we will get at some point during the year;-) I don't have much more knitting to do on this one now so I'm hoping this will be another project finished in time for me to wear it on holiday. I'm keeping my fingers crossed I have enough yarn to finish it.





Yes, it's green and it's a frog. No, honestly it is because despite it knitting up exactly as it should do, I just feel when I've finished it it will feel a bit tight and restricted and I don't feel comfortable in sweaters, particularly warm ones, that are too tight. I much prefer a looser fit. I don't want to go ahead and finish this and then have something that sits in the wardrobe and never gets worn because frankly that is just such a waste of time and money and its a lovely, comfortable, snuggly yarn that makes a lovely, snuggly and comfortable piece of fabric so I really want to wear this one. I just feel its destined to be a tummy hugger and after four children I don't need my tummy being emphasised! I'm starting to frog the pieces I have finished and I will make a start on re-knitting this when I've finished the two jumpers I want completed before the holiday. It didn't take long to knit first time round so I don't think this will take me too long to re-do and I will be so much happier with the end result that it will be worth it. It's knitted in Alpaca Soft and is a pattern called, I think, Cuddles from one of the Rowan Alpaca Soft pattern books.