Richard has been not-so-subtly pointing out the holes in the pair of Fuzzy Feet that I made for him a year or so ago, so this weekend I finally dragged out some wool and whipped up a new pair for him. They are such a fast knit that I was able to do one on Saturday and one on Sunday, and still have enough time Sunday to cast on for a top-down raglan baby sweater destined for the new son of my fellow tenor in the church choir. And that was such a fast knit that I actually finished that up Monday night at knitting group, and immediately cast on with yet more feltable wool for a bag that I am test knitting for a friend. The bag, I might add, is not going as quickly as the slippers or the baby sweater, but that is more because it is a larger and more complicated project, and also because that whole pesky going-to-work thing tends to get in the way of prime knitting hours during the week.
I am thrilled with how the baby sweater turned out, by the way. I'll post a picture as soon as I track down some buttons and finish it off. Not only is it a quick knit, it is extremely customizable, since I can see how simple it will be to just tack on some cables or a little lace insert, or any other type of texturing that might spring to mind, depending on the yarn I use. It is the sort of thing that makes me ponder writing up a little 'baby raglan generator' spreadsheet, into which I could enter stitch and row gauge, and thus magically generate a pattern for exactly how often, and where to work in all the increases and decreases that might be required. Luckily for me, someone else already did it.
Posted by Jenipurr at January 19, 2007 08:42 PM