Shapes and Vogue Knitting

2012-02-11T13:02:00.005-05:00

My copy of Vogue Knitting Stitchionary 2 Volume 2: Cables, has a permanent spot on the coffee table in my living room. Stacked among my favorite Rowan knitting books, my VKC's book is always within arms reach. I really like to cable instead of just knitting a straight stitch, I get bored with straight stitches. With my handy cable encyclopedia I have an abundance of cable patterns at the ready.

For my Christmas present to myself I made this sweater. I wondered what would happen if I started knitting in the round, changing the pattern often enough that I wouldn't get bored. After browsing VKC, I found a couple of cable patterns to short row around in a circle. I love the results. I wear this sweater all the time, it is so cozy and warm (thanks to the Loops and Threads Charisma yarn).

Another experiment I tried lately was taking an idea from a Rowan pattern, Periwinkle, and Pixie sizing it. Thanks to my VKC, I found four different cable patterns that I could try. The idea of the pattern is to have eight squares that you then sew together to make a sweater. This sweater is two-fold, Pixie gets a cotton play sweater (made from Lily's Sugar and Cream, $1.99 per skein) that I don't care if she gets dirty and I get to learn new cable patterns.

Who said shapes aren't fun?

My Brother's Niece

2012-02-06T11:58:00.003-05:00

There are time my adorable Pixie reminds me SO much of my brothers. For example, when she wants me to find videos of crocodiles eating people, or to research vampire bats. Pixie will spend hours on line watching sharks and is incredibly upset about sharks being killed for shark fin soup.

As part of our schooling this month (what with her mother's deep love of poetry and all) we are reading and writing poetry. While we are reading a A Child's Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson, we decided that she chooses the subject and makes the rhymes for what she will write about. Here was this mornings poem:

The Black Mamba

The Black Mamba is a long snake,
A scary day it could make,
It can rise up and sink it's fangs into your face, (her words verbatim)
If you see one take off at a fast pace.

Thank you boys, you prepared me well.

cottagecowgirlie

Shapes and Vogue Knitting

My Brother's Niece