knitting report

I skipped this weekend's SCA event because I have a cold, the inevitable result of too much time spent in airports, and am feeling dull and dragging. Instead, I listened to music and sewed in all the ends on the gloves for redsixwing:





(I will mail them on Monday, I promise!)

Then I pondered my next project. I think I want to make an actual sweater for myself, which I haven't done in a long time. I dug through lots and lots of cabled cardigans on Ravelry, and eventually settled on either Cassidy or Central Park. There are two salient differences that aren't obvious from images of the cable patterns. One is that Cassidy has waist shaping, while Central Park has a rectangular body. The other is that the smaller sizes of Cassidy are separated by two-inch increments, while Central Park sizes up four inches at a time. I am really not used to thinking about knitting for positive ease--with gloves and socks you typically want to make something a bit smaller than the body for which it's intended, to allow for stretching, whereas sweaters can drape--but it looks to me as if I could knit Cassidy for myself as written, but would have to alter Central Park to get an intermediate size.

I'm now debating whether I have the energy to hike to the yarn store (it's about two miles away, and I don't really know how to park nearby), or whether I can bear to wait an entire week before I have time to drop by after work. (Obviously one can buy yarn online, but this will be a long and slow enough project that I'd rather buy materials I love to touch, which is easier judged in person.)