Here are updates on Matt’s sweater and a kind of new project, the Danica entrelac scarf (but in different yarn, Garnstudio Alaska, and different colors from the pattern) from Knitty.
That was last weekend. By now the second sleeve is all done, all three pieces are connected, and I have a half-dozen rounds done above with the sleeves and body together.
If I had really been thinking I would have made the bottom of the body navy instead of the gray. When it came to the sleeves, I was thinking, the part of a garment that gets dirtiest fastest, except maybe for the ring around the collar, is the cuffs. So how dumb would it be to use the light color for the end of the cuffs? So I didn’t. But I hadn’t been that smart for the body ribbing.
This one came out so out-of-focus that I’m showing it smaller in the hopes that it will be sharp enough this way. But you can still see where I picked up and knit when I should have picked up and purled. I think entrelac is going to be a major exercise in picking up stitches. I haven’t got really far, but I think I’ve done one each of every kind of unit in the project except for the very last blocks.
