Tangled Yoke – Knitting Box

Hello winter

Tangled Yoke is done! Tangled Yoke is done! Yay!

Tangled Yoke

I gave myself a deadline of 1st of June (which is when winter “officially” starts around here) to finish this cardigan, and that was just when this was finished. With the weather getting colder and colder it’s about time really.

Tangled Yoke

Some details:

Pattern: Tangled Yoke Cardigan by Eunny Jang, published in Interweave Knits Fall 2007. Great, well written pattern. I loved knitting this. Everything just fell into place. No need to fudge numbers, no need to wrestle with it to make it work. Just mindless knitting mostly, with the exception of the interlocking cables at the yoke. Even then it wasn’t so bad, I love a good challenge.

Although, it wasn’t without casualties. I did have a miscrossed cable, which I didn’t notice until several rows down the track. As much as I enjoyed the knitting, I wasn’t going to rip back (have I mentioned that at one point in the cables section there were over 400 stitches on the needles?). So after I finished the cardigan, I fixed the miscrossed cable with the Yarn Harlot’s “draw on” method that she described on this post (scroll down to the “desperate measures” section. Indeed.) which does not require ripping back. It worked!

Tangled Yoke

Yarn: 6.5 balls of Rowan Felted Tweed in ‘Whisper’ (colour #141). Love this yarn. It was a bit prickly to begin with, but after a wash it softened up a lot, and produced this lovely warm fabric with a nice drape and a soft halo of fuzz. I think the alpaca content gives it extra warmth. I love how it’s cozy and warm without being heavy (the yarn itself is perhaps just a bit thinner than DK or 8-ply weight).

Needles: 3.75mm for the most part, 3.5mm and 2mm for yoke and button bands.

Tangled Yoke

And a close up of the buttons…

I just love this cardigan. I can see myself wearing this a lot!

2 June 2008

Much better!

Tangled Yoke has been growing quite fast. (Amazing what being at home sick for almost a week can do! I’m feeling much better now, thankfully. Annette is back at preschool too this week, and things are starting to feel normal again around here. Thanks again for all the get well wishes!) I’ve finished the body up to just before the yoke, and now am working on the first sleeve. The sleeves are worked in the round, so I won’t have to seam that up either. Yay!

And for my macro photo of the day, some wildflowers I found on my walk to the preschool yesterday. I have no idea what these are called, anybody knows? They’re very tiny, probably the size of my finger nails.

Edited to add: The flowers are called Pink Knotweed, as Taryn said in the comments. Thanks Taryn!

22 April 2008

Tweedy

Eeek, I’m very behind on my 30 day photo challenge. That virus that’s been going around has kindly visited our home and has taken to going from one family member to another. It’s overstaying its welcome, if you ask me! (Not that it was welcome in the first place!) It’s kind of zapped my photo-taking mojo out of me. I’ll catch up later, I suppose.

In the mean time, lets look at some knitting. Thank goodness for knitting, it’s just about the only thing I feel like doing at the moment.

Been working on Tangled Yoke, which is going quite well. It’s a bit difficult to photograph the whole thing, as it’s quite wide (you knit the body — the back and two fronts — all in one piece from the bottom up, so it’s supposed to be almost seamless in the end). I have just finished the seemingly interminable ribbing, and starting on the miles and miles of stocking stitch ahead. Hehe. But it’s all good. Good tv knitting.

16 April 2008

WIP

I had been feeling rather blah about my current projects lately. I still like them and want to finish them at some stage, but I just don’t feel so motivated to pick them up right now. The more I pushed myself to work on them, the less fun they seemed. I thought a change was in order, before I grow resentful towards perfectly good projects. So what did I do? Start new projects of course 🙂 Eventually I’ll go back to my long suffering, languishing WIPs, but for now these new WIPs are keeping me happy.

I started the So Called Scarf a few weeks ago, with some Moda Vera Harmony yarn I picked up from Spotlight on sale ($1 a ball!). I loved the colours in the ball (mix of red, pink, purple, and brown), and this stitch pattern seems to show them off very well.

This pile here is going to be a toddler cardigan for a swap I’m working on with Jade. The pattern is from Debbie Bliss’s Special Knits book.

And this little swatch tells me that I’ve got the right gauge for Tangled Yoke cardigan, yippeee! In the past year I think I’ve only worked on small things (socks, hats, things for Annette), and I’ve been hankering for something BIG now (because clearly I don’t have enough things to do…). And one of my resolutions this year was to knit a cardigan for myself, and after many patterns consideration, I think this cardigan is it (and hopefully there will be others after this one). Simple enough to be worn day to day, but interesting enough with those cables at the yoke. I’m using the recommended yarn, Rowan Felted Tweed, in ‘whisper’. Let’s hope it will turn out as good as in my imagination. Oh, and in my imagination, I will also finish this cardigan before winter comes along.

27 March 2008