I guess winter has been a bit late this year, but it has finally arrived. Usually the flu and colds start in October, but this year we managed to stave it off until last week. Actually, I believe it really started during the weekend when my daughter’s hockey team had a tournament in Peterborough. They played very well and after the round-robin games they were first in their division and advanced straight to the final.
But in the meantime one of the girls on the team (not mine) succumbed to a terrible stomach flu. Fortunately she recovered in time for the final, and the girls won. A great big congratulations to the gold medalists!
And speaking of winners – it’s time to announce the winner of California Revival Knits. The random number generator tells me that Ellen M is the winner. CONGRATULATIONS! The book will appear in your Ravelry library shortly. Enjoy.
Anyhow, we returned home with our very own gold medalist. And while she managed to escape the flu, her brother was not quite so lucky. He must have caught a different strain, because (luckily) there were no upset stomachs involved, but he and I were both down with it last week. And I have to say that being sick does not really go well with designing, so I had to put away the projects I was working on and cast on something a little more straightforward. Enter the Dancing Swedish Twins (that would be the Sedin brothers – more hockey, of course).
One of the first skeins of yarn I bought from indigodragonfly was a skein in the colour way Dancing Swedish Twins. I originally bought it for my daughter and she started to knit a shawl from it. But for some reason the shawl never progressed very far and the skein has just been sitting around in the stash. So I thought that this would be a good time to use it. Since the colours are so bright, I thought it was best to pick a relatively simple design, so here is my very own recipe for a twisted rib sock.
The second one is coming along too. I mean, with a name like that, it really must have a twin sock to go with it.
A while ago I decided I would like to knit myself a sweater. After searching high and low, I didn’t find anything that really captured my attention, and that would go with the lovely yarn that I had. I started with two skeins of JulieSpins 435 Silky Fingering in Polar Night. I got this yarn in a swap on Ravelry a few years ago, and I haven’t really known what to do with it, to show off all the different colours and shades in this yarn.
Combining the two, I thought it would be nice to let the yarn shine with a stockinette body. This way, the depth of the colours in hand dyed yarn like the yarn from JulieSpins can really be shown to its full advantage.
The sweater is, as you can see, not finished yet. But I’ve knit a large portion of the body. The yoke and chest portion is knit in Polar Night, and the waist is a contrasting Cerise colour. I think it brings out some of the purple from the Polar Night.
I’m looking forward to finishing the sweater and getting to wear it. Now that it’s snowing outside and winter is coming closer, I think it would be wonderful to warm up in this sweater.
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