Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Central Park Hoodie

Since I finished the Leaf Tee, I'm getting into my next project -- the Central Park Hoodie for the knit-a-long. So far, I've only knitted my swatches. I didn't realize how much they'd change after blocking (first time with wool), so I had to knit swatches using US7s, 8s, and 9s. Naturally, I'm going to use the 8s -- the first ones I swatched!

I'm using Ella Rae classic in grape -- I like the grey-ish purple color.




Finished Sweater(s)

Finally got around to taking pictures of the finished sweater. It's pretty frumpy -- the sleeves are way to wide, but it was the pattern for the beginner class.This one took much longer than I had expected -- almost 2 months -- since I had to keep ripping out rounds and rounds of stitches while I was learning how to do raglan increases. I used Debbie Bliss Cathay and found the pattern on Knitting School Dropout's blog. Not sure I got the sizing quite right, but it'll do :)