My friend Jo sent me some beautiful stitch markers, all the way from Australia! Thank you Jo!
Aren’t they so cute? I can’t wait to use the pink hearts when I start working on the front of School Daze. Speaking of which, here’s some progress on the back so far:
It’s knitting up nice and quick – I’ve got about 10″ done already. If you look closely at the picture, you can see the changes in the yarn – sometimes it’s thick and sometimes it’s so thin it’s like thread. Makes for an interesting texture though. I’m enjoying it, but the real fun will be the front.
I started on Picot-Boo yesterday, and then had to start over, but it’s okay because this yarn is DIVINE! It’s so, so soft, has a wonderful sheen to it and the color is out of this world. I can’t wait to get started again so I can show pictures. The problem is the gauge. The label says use US#7 and get 4.5, but I’m getting 5.5. (It’s funny too because isn’t 4.5 around Aran weight – this stuff is pretty thin. I’d say it’s probably meant to be knit on 5s or 6s.) So rip I did. Luckily it’s for a tiny little girl, so there wasn’t much to it.
Oh and my review of Maggie Righetti’s Sweater Design in Plain English is up at K1R2.
What a gorgeous shade of Manos. And the stitchmarkers are amazing. Enjoy them.
The Art Yarns supermerino looks like a dream to work up. School Daze is looking mighty fine and those heart stitch markers are too cute. Enjoy!
Lovely stitch markers–what a nice friend to send those to you! 🙂 and that School Daze is lovely. The colors are perfect.
Hope the Picot-Boo works out better–glad to hear that you love the yarn.
Take care 🙂
I really enjoyed your review of Sweater Design. I had been undecided about that one, but your review pushed me over the line. I ordered it immediately! Thanks!
I love M.R.’s “Knitting In Plain English” also – her descriptions are so clear you can really learn to do things from reading – I have an ancient copy that was the only knitting book around here for years, I picked it up ages before I picked up needles again and it just sat on the shelf, waiting patiently. Apparently I wanted to go back to knitting long before I did and when I was ready, Maggie was there to teach me the long tail cast on and get me going.
Happy Birthday!
Wow. I just read your book review and it’s really great. I am definitely adding that book (which I would probably have overlooked) to my “buy” list. Thanks. 🙂
cool stitch markers. and your sweater front looks great!