Cornflower Cardigan

The Interweave Knits fall preview is up, and my pattern is in it!

The sample was a true marathon knit, and one of my more ambitious projects to date - stranded, steeked (in superwash; eek!), short-row-shaped... and written, charted, and graded of course. I took a few pictures wearing the sample before sending it out. It's the smallest size and I'm wearing it with very little ease (apparently it had relaxed a bit by the time it got to the IK offices; the final sizes are a bit larger than I'd intended...such is the hazard of superwash). The intention is to include a decent amount of ease for coziness and layering capabilities, but I think it looks okay either way.

I'm not actually hungover here, but damned if I don't look it

covergirl

The new (summer 2012) Knitscene is up for digital download and pre-order and ...

I made the cover! Or more accurately my pattern sample, sported by a lovely model, made the cover. I'm kind of beside myself.

I finished the sample at the end of last October. A large portion of the the body was knitted on a 6 hour train ride from Munich to Paris. If my travels had proceeded as planned, this would have been a tri-country sweater. Despite intervening forces beyond my power, including but not limited to French rail strikes, the sample turned out just fine... even never having seen Vienna.

Couldn't resist trying it on and getting a few shots before I put it in the mail:

It has a little cowl neck in seed stitch that can be left to drape as in the first picture, or folded down as in the last. More details, as usual, over on Ravelry.

Hip hip, hooray!