This is the sweater I am knitting for Ian.
and here he is wearing a sweater from Fisher’s in Dublin – that’s the sweater I’m using as a guide for the one I am knitting. I think I have a bit more knitting to do!
The yarn I’m using is lovely and soft, Socrates brand, and I’m using 2 strands.
Readers know I like to read while I knit.
I have just finished a splendid book. The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg. Originally written in Swedish and published in 1949. What a wonderful evocation of the emigrating experiences of a group of Europeans in the 1850’s. They made up their minds, for various reasons, to emigrate from Sweden and make a new life for themselves far across the sea in America. At the conclusion of this book, Volume I of a planned trilogy which turned into 4 volumes, they have at last reached the shores of America, New York, after a perilous voyage across the North Atlantic. And this was before the days of steam so they were all cramped together in a sailing vessel. These people many of whom had never even seen the sea before. I look forward to Volume II, Unto A Good Land.
And I am considering my next knitting project after I finish Ian’s sweater.
how’s this for a detailed pattern. No knitting and reading at the same time for this one.
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The sweater looks wonderful! It will soon be time to attach the arms, then you will be on the “home stretch!”
Thanks for the encouragement. Another few inches yet on the body before I get to the arm attaching bit. I had a long wait for the yarn store to get additional yarn – I never buy enough when I begin a project. I suspect I will need more again before I’m done.
Janet, you can always get an audio book, if you want to knit the grey/white sweater – and “read”:)) looks great though, I really like the nordic patterns. I found one I want to make myself, from the Handberg book about Norwegian patterns… found the right yarn, but not the time – yet:))
I’m not sure I want an audio book for a novel – I’m still attached to paper. But what I could do is go the audio route for language study, for example. That could be fine.
Hello Janet, now this is incredible… This must be a rather old (but timeless!) pattern – at least 20-25 years old, because I had had a magazine with the very same picture, the very same pattern… and knitted a grey-white sweater but I was lazy and only used the star pattern in the middle! As far as I know my sister-in-law still has the sweater among my old clothes back in Hungary!
Amazing. I think this shows us all how timeless same patterns are.
(I usually watch the telly while knitting. But if it is a difficult pattern, then every little noise can be distracting for me.)
Dear Monika – yes that is an old pattern and it was in a packet which I found in Oxfam in Dundrum. The packet was published by Marshall Cavendish. Someone must have cleaned out their house and donated that packet to Oxfam.
I see that it is available on Amazon. Placed an order!