Stitch Books & Swatches
So, I ordered those books last week. Guess what...they didn't have the cables/stitches that I was looking for.
So I got serious today about this project and went out to look for what I needed. I ended up at Knitty City. I bought the Stitchionary from Vogue - Volume Two Cables.
It had exactly what I needed for one of the panels of the sweater that I'm charting out. Yay! It's hard to see my swatch but it does in fact look like the picture...always a good thing!
Next up is this simple pattern. I found it in a number of books but I ended up buying The Harmony Guides 250 stitches Cables & Arans. It's the newer books from Interweave. I love this book. I've never even looked at it because I have all of the harmony guides. I'm not sure if there are new cables in it or just the same ones photographed in color and charted out. Anyway, I found 4 different cables that I need in this one book. Sweet!
Simple. Hard to see.
Believe it or not I couldn't find this pretty obvious cable. I was really having a tough time but there it was in the Harmony book. I should look more closely in my old Harmony Guides. hmm.
The yarn that I'm using for this project is Wool BamBoo from Classic Elite. I like it. I'm using size 6 needles. So once I get all the gauges worked out I should be able to whip this out in no time. Oh I also bought Bryspun straights today just because they were there and I've never used them before. I like them too.
All in all a very productive, successful knitting day.
The fire smell if officially out of my apartment. I didn't get insurance today but it's on the top of my to do list.
So I got serious today about this project and went out to look for what I needed. I ended up at Knitty City. I bought the Stitchionary from Vogue - Volume Two Cables.
It had exactly what I needed for one of the panels of the sweater that I'm charting out. Yay! It's hard to see my swatch but it does in fact look like the picture...always a good thing!
Next up is this simple pattern. I found it in a number of books but I ended up buying The Harmony Guides 250 stitches Cables & Arans. It's the newer books from Interweave. I love this book. I've never even looked at it because I have all of the harmony guides. I'm not sure if there are new cables in it or just the same ones photographed in color and charted out. Anyway, I found 4 different cables that I need in this one book. Sweet!
Simple. Hard to see.
Believe it or not I couldn't find this pretty obvious cable. I was really having a tough time but there it was in the Harmony book. I should look more closely in my old Harmony Guides. hmm.
The yarn that I'm using for this project is Wool BamBoo from Classic Elite. I like it. I'm using size 6 needles. So once I get all the gauges worked out I should be able to whip this out in no time. Oh I also bought Bryspun straights today just because they were there and I've never used them before. I like them too.
All in all a very productive, successful knitting day.
The fire smell if officially out of my apartment. I didn't get insurance today but it's on the top of my to do list.
posted by Heather at 8:45 PM
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