still kickin'...

Hey, I’m back! It’s cooled off. Fall is my favourite time of year! Sweater weather is much more fun to me and I can get back to knitting! I’m planning a trip out to Vancouver to visit with favourite baby sister, Marnie, and I like to be bearing gifts! I’m taking my own advice and re-knitting ‘Kickin’ Around’.

A few years back, I was planning a pullover for manfriend for Christmas – he actually requested it based on a sweater he saw in a store window – you can read the long version going back to October, 2019 - http://knitwords.blogspot.com/2019/10/male-order.html . See where I sort of left it hanging and then, finally finishing it up for a late Christmas present. http://knitwords.blogspot.com/2019/11/avoidance.html

Anyway, the long and short of it was that I ordered some yarn just because it was tweedy and he liked the colour sample on the internet. When I received it, realized it was a big mistake – yarn was way too fancy for manfriend so had put it away and re-ordered. I did swatch it and lucky for me, blogged about it there so when I came across the swatch the other day, I could read exactly what I did! I’m looking for shortcuts here! And Sis won’t know the difference!

The yarn is Providence from Berroco, 65% merino wool, 20% baby alpaca, 15% silk – it really is a lovely yarn and I’d like it for myself except the dark teal is not for me but it’s a good Marnie colour.

Starting with a sleeve, with good intentions, I threw in a stitch pattern – going with ‘butterfly’ because it was a combo of tuck and eyelets, seemed like it would be fairly quick to do and shows up on the purl side which I always like on a tweed fabric. Got 40 rows done, decided it was too difficult to see for making the eyelets on top of the tucked stitch - all that effort was not going to show up in the dark colour.  Dropped it off the machine, rewound the yarn and decided we could be twins – using the same windowpane as in the original! – I’m leaving in 15 days, give me a break!