Jack the cat thinks the afghan I'm making is just for him. Blogger has been having problems lately so I hope this post pushes through my SLC sweater post.

Here's the Dale of Norway Salt Lake City Olympic ski sweater knit in Heilo. Unfortunately I think this pattern is already out of print. I greatly enjoyed knitting the intricate patterns - check out my favorite dancing little people on the back yoke! Right in between the little people is the Olympic flame.




DH has worn this sweater exactly once. Unfortunately it really is too warm for the climate here. If it wasn't so hot I'd be knitting these sweaters all the time.

Dale of Norway Cardigan

I finally managed to get some sweater photos. This first one is from Dale of Norway - the booklet, number 79, is out of print and this sweater is number 7913. I made it in Heilo and it is so large I wear it as a coat in winter. It is starting to pill but I love it anyway and it is extremely warm.



This was my first steeked sweater and when I was cutting the steeks for the front button band I cut right through to the back of the sweater - about a 2 inch hole. After swearing like a sailor for several minutes I ripped the hole on all sides to make it bigger (ouch!) and then knit back and forth and kitchenered the top and bottom together. You can't tell at all from the outside - it was in the plain stockinette area in the bottom center.



Tomorrow I'll show my favorite sweater of all time, DH's Salt Lake City Dale Olympic ski sweater.

According to one of my kitchen thermometers brought outside, it is pushing 100 here today. Good thing I'm working on a heavy wool afghan! Even better, I apparently chose the single most difficult color to photograph in the history of mankind (Wool of the Andes in tomato). I'm almost done with my seventh square - the Ginger Smith Square. The KAL for this fun afghan is HERE.



I will keep trying to get photographs you can actually see. If anyone has any ideas about taking photos of a really really bright red color please let me know. So far I've tried inside, outside, flash, natural light, Ott lite, etc.

Groovy Socks NEW Free Pattern

Remember when I told you that the best way to prove that I do not only design baby things, would be to design a sock, well here is the proof. The idea for the Groovy socks hit me like a train! I had just finished creating a new colorway for SockPixie , called La Vie en Rose, and was so in love with the colors, and the contrast that I knew I had to play the natural stripes in the yarn.
Grovvy socks have the coolest wavy chevron pattern. They are so easy to remember that Wendy would probably refer to them as commuter socks!

Click to see the Groovy Socks Pattern.

Spruce Mountain Men's Mittens

I'm pretty happy with this design for men's mittens. I used three skeins of Andean Treasure alpaca yarn. I purposely started the sore thumb gusset an inch above the corrugated ribbed cuff which I think gives a better fit for men's hands. The only problem really is that of course the stripes don't line up at the end of the row but I put the end of the row opposite the thumb so it is less noticeable. I'll try to pin down DH this week to get a photo of him modeling the mittens.

This is a test post. My last post at Blogger (about German Twisted Cast On) isn't showing up for some reason. I'm currently trying to figure out if it was just that post or if something is broken.