Twisp of Fate

I haven’t been taking too many pictures lately, and blogging without pictures seems kind of lame.  But it isn’t like I haven’t been busy!

I am teaching the Topdown Set-In Sleeve Sweater class again (I taught it for the first time in the fall) – 2 groups, one on Thursday nights here at my home, and the other on Saturday mornings down at Uptown Woolery in Chelan.  I set it up as a 5-week series, although we are taking a break over Thanksgiving week.  With her permission, I am basing it on Karen Alfke’s Unpattern, although in the course of teaching it the first time, I came up with an alternate approach to planning and knitting the set-in sleeve cap.  By the way, these are knit in one piece from the top down – NO SEWING.  I love that.

Here’s a sweater I knit along with my first class – I used 8 skeins of Grignasco “Alaska” which I bought from a friend at a stash reduction sale several years ago.  It is a long discontinued yarn, so there was no chance of getting any more, and it was a close-run thing.  I had about 18″ (yes, inches) of yarn left when I was done!

Top-down Set-in Sleeve Sweater in Grignasco "Alaska"

I think Wilma would have liked it – she was fond of “short and boxy” sweaters!  And by the way, that is MY sleeve cap, not the Unpattern one.

We had a little bit of snow yesterday, and it was beautiful this morning when the sun first came up.