I am happy to announce that I did finish Katania on Thursday and got it blocked yesterday. I am quite pleased with it. I do apologize for the less than stellar pictures today but it was the best I could do with the gray wet conditions here today. The color is a bit off too, as this color is more yellow/gold than it appears in this indoor picture. The weather is supposed to be warm and sunny tomorrow so I will try again and share if I get any better ones. In the meantime I had a bit of time to post this morning and didn’t want to waste the opportunity to show it off.
It looks so much nicer after the blocking. I didn’t even take a picture of the poor thing right off the needles since it looked much less impressive and I was trying to be respectful of it in it’s unfinished state. ;-)
I have two other shawls already picked out to work on but am taking a slight diversion from lace to make a sweater for my youngest. I was digging through my dresser for something this past week and came across a couple of sweaters that I had made for some of my grown children when they were little. One of them was the right size to fit my littlest and he has worn it non-stop ever since. I mean that literally. He even slept in it a few times.
Well, what’s a knitter to do in response to such appreciation? Make another sweater for that person, am I right? So I dug out some of the yarn of the same batch that I have had in the stash for what has to be about 18 years or so. I let him pick the colors from what I had left and these were his picks.
This is some wonderful farm yarn with the lanolin still in it that I bought back in the days when I used wool soakers over cloth diapers. I bought gads of it online back in the late nineties or 2000 I guess. My favorite kid’s sweater in those days was the magic top-down raglan which I was delighted to find had been converted to a free pattern on Ravelry. I needed to look up the math for the cast on since I haven’t made one for awhile. I have made lots of these since they are so fun to make and great for kids wear.
