Well... I have been a naughty naughty girl. I ordered some patterns from the back issue of Interweave Knits Fall 2004 issue...which in itself doesn't seem too bad, since they were relatively inexpensive - but I'm not supposed to be spending any money for more than one reason. Mostly because I have unfinished projects I promised myself I would start working on before I bought anything new. Oh yeah, and then there are things like...bills to be paid.
Oops... I also ordered the Kristin Nicolas book, Knitting Beautiful Classics - also known as "Knitting the New Classics" because it has the pattern that really got me hooked to begin with. "The Native American Aran". There it is on the left - The woman next to the horse in hot pink, with a large fair isle band- only I'm planning to do it in Gold or an Olive/Lime color. As soon as I saw it I wanted to do it. Let's keep in mind this was 1991 and I'd only knit a scarf and one Icelandic Sweater. It was way over my head. It might still be way over my head, but it is a future goal for me. Several years ago, I walked into a knit shop with money in hand, and was prepared to start buying all the yarn for it, and the $#!&* lady talked me out of it!! WHY? I have no idea. She kept trying to convince me to do something else. Sure it's complicated, but why talk me OUT of a sale? Silly lady. I was prepared to spend major bucks... oh well for her. Oh well for me too, because I listened to her and chickened out!! So here I am some 16 years later with several more projects under my belt, and the yarn it calls for - Classic Elite Tapestry yarn, they don't even make anymore. However, I have faith I can find a similar yarn and use that instead. Maybe I'll ask Kristen Nicolas herself! Or not. I sent her an email to ask her about this pattern. (The reason I ordered the book was I lost the front page of the pattern. It was due to years of moving stuff around from home to home...it was inevitable I guess). Anyway she answered right away and although she couldn't help me, I ended up finding it on Amazon.
Knitting update: I frogged the watermelon socks because they were going to be too big, and I may have even decided to put that sock pattern aside for some other yarn. And I wasn't supposed to start them anyway!! I am putting aside that stuff for a hat and scarf AFTER I finish some other stuff. In the meantime I have started Bob's second sock, and I've been learning a ton. I taught myself invisible cast on and I'm going to try a tubular cast on and try some toe up socks. OK so socks are not illegal according to my rules as long as I use up stash yarn. So not only have I learned how to Magic Loop my socks but I'm learning even more on top of it! YAY.
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