Friday, March 02, 2007

Knitty, she keep on plugging

Soon!

In the meantime, progress photos for those who love such things. Cables & Os is moving right along. Look.


Look at all those tidy, shiny repeats! Ooh!

But it takes me 30 minutes a row. Really. Why is that?

Cause I'm knitting the fronts and back all at the same time as per the pattern. I don't mind this, because I can see the yardage growing, but MAN it feels slow sometimes.

Never mind. Progress is progress. Once I split the body for the fronts and back, it'll feel like flying! Plus I constantly get to fondle the fabric, knowing this is one of those sweaters I'll have forever.

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p.s. I confess. I had kind of mentally tuned Berroco out for a while, because their designs were nothing like my taste. A lot of novelty and I don't do novelty.

But have you seen their newsletters recently? Oh heavens, it's a new Berroco, and I love it. What's that? A cotton-blend yarn that's specifically created to mimic what wool does naturally? With added elastic? How very No Sheep! Yay!

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posted by amy [Knitty] @ 10:32 AM 12 comments

Comments:
wow!! amy!! it looks so beautiful - i have WAY too many projects in the queue right now, but man, i think i need to add this sweater. (in other words, good work on the NSFY promotion with these in-progress shots!) i hear you on the back and fronts at the same time being slow slow slow, but it's the same with Glee, which I'm working on now, and no seaming is a very attractive thing indeed. your cables and o's is going to look wonderful - it already does! ~gabriella
# posted by Blogger gabriella : 11:17 AM, March 02, 2007
 
LOVE, LOVE the sweater. I'm currently working something similar and am at row 40 so I can understand. I look forward to starting my XO sweater in 4weeks in sage. So any suggestions for a cammi or short sleave sweater to make to wear with the XO cardi? I bought some extra Cottolino to do this. :)
# posted by Blogger ~S : 11:19 AM, March 02, 2007
 
Looks beautiful! Can't wait to see you model it.
# posted by Blogger Karen : 11:23 AM, March 02, 2007
 
and you know that Norah Gaughan is the Creative director at Berroco now too. I wasn't too keen on them, but it seems they're getting away from a lot of the novelty frou-frou stuff. Have you seen their Bonsai yarn? It's no wool, I believe and there's a great wrap sweater that's gorgeous.
# posted by Blogger Wanda : 11:23 AM, March 02, 2007
 
gabriella,
i'm a HUGE fan of no-seaming projects. the top-down raglan only got done because of the lack of seams. :-)

and ~s (such a cryptic name!), what about the honeymoon cami?
http://www.knitty.com/issuespring04/PATThoneymoon.html

or there's always the yummy picovoli if you want more coverage
http://www.magknits.com/Aug05/picovoli.htm
# posted by Blogger amy [Knitty] : 11:25 AM, March 02, 2007
 
Thirty minutes a row?! Oh, don't tell me that - I don't want to know the reality of what it takes to knit a sweater! [don't worry; I keep knitting them anyway] Besides, if you've spent 15 or 20 hours on that pink lovely, that means 15 or 20 hours you weren't working on Knitty! Bad girl. Bad, bad Amy. Don't you know you've supposed to be devoting 16 hours a day to Knitty right now?

[are you beginning to be sick of rabid fans?]
# posted by Blogger enallagma9 : 12:39 PM, March 02, 2007
 
sorry, i meant 30 seconds. i should have the whole thing done in about 10 minutes. just hang on while i finish it.

:-)

and YAY for norah gaughan + berroco. definitely a good thing!
# posted by Blogger amy [Knitty] : 12:42 PM, March 02, 2007
 
Can't wait to finally buy this book - i bought the yarn on Elann though.. but at my size i feel it will weigh a ton !!
Anyway i took the antique gold - nice summer colour
Sam
# posted by Blogger Sam La Tricoteuse : 1:58 PM, March 02, 2007
 
I thought of you and No Sheep as soon as I ready berroco's new newsletter! It's the bulk and weight of those seamless sweaters that always gets me, not how long it takes to knit them!
# posted by Anonymous Ali : 3:46 PM, March 02, 2007
 
Well, Amy, I bought your book on KnitPicks.com. I thought, Do I want to take months and months to figure out the Tuscany Shawl when Amy already has? And where is it written that I cannot knit the Cables & Os in wool if I want to?

Now I must wait to receive it ...

;-)

Anne
# posted by Anonymous Anne : 4:37 PM, March 02, 2007
 
By the bye, I went to Barnes & Noble (had a gift card) and they said they're scheduled to get No Sheep for You on April 1! I said, Why is that, when it's available online?

???
# posted by Anonymous Anne : 4:39 PM, March 02, 2007
 
ali -- you've got a point. and my friend jillian likes the stability seams add.

and anne, you can knit anything in the book out of anything you want to! just sub slippery for slippery and grabby for grabby. wool should work just fine for the cables & os. [as for books being delivered to the big chains later, it's something to do with their internal systems. still waiting to hear about amazon!]
# posted by Blogger amy [Knitty] : 5:33 PM, March 02, 2007
 
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