In the Pink

Last weekend I finally sewed up the pink cotton sweater with the classic cables.  Here's the unflattering, squinting-into-the-sun photo that was the best I could manage this morning with my impatient, technophobe husband.

 

The yarn and pattern are both from Nashua, one of the few times that I've managed to use the yarn that the pattern calls for.  I bought two bags of Cotton Focus on sale from Ram Wools last spring.  I made the size medium, figuring that pure cotton tends to loosen up with wearing.  This could have used a bit more ease, so here's hoping it does.  I'll block it more severely next time I wash it.  Still, this will be a comfortable sweater that will never go out of style.  

My other pink knitting is the Lace Ribbon scarf that I signed up to do with a Ravelry knitalong last May.  I thought before this May ended that I should try to get it done, but I didn't quite make that deadline either. 

I'm using Kertzer's On Your Toes Bamboo sock yarn, and I love the feel of it so much that I've already bought more in the blue-gray colorway to make a light scarf version of Clapotis.  My friend Ann Marie wants me to help her get started on a stole-size Clapotis because she likes my turquoise soysilk one so much.  We'll be getting together on her days off to do our own little knitalong.  Even though the initial internet frenzy for the pattern is past, my Clapotis still gets a lot of attention when I wear it and I think the pattern deserves to become a classic.

I've taken some days off from knitting since June 2 when the new Sims 3 was released.  I've bought every game and expansion since the original Sims came out in 2002  and I was at Future Shop the first day to snap up this one.  It is so damn addictive.  I think I'll end here and go play.

Comments

[Carol on PEI]

The sweater is fabulous.I love it!

[Brenda]

Christy, that sweater is WONDERFUL. And you are right. It will never go out of style Well done.

[freshisle]

Gorgeous sweater. I love pink, too!