Winding Path Complete!

It took about one month, but my first sweater is complete!  This is the Winding Path pattern from Wenlan Chia, as featured in 50 Reversible Knits.

You can see in my photos how the neck can be worn as the body.  Very clever idea, but I much prefer it with the stockinette body and big ribbed neck.  This sort of defeats the whole point of the 'winding path' though!  I also want to add a few inches to the stockinette, since it rolls.  And to the sleeves.  

Flipped upside down- so cozy!!

Winding Path ribbing

I love the color and I love how warm the sweater is!  All in all, I'm very pleased with my first try and I can't wait to make another sweater.  Well, maybe for next fall and winter!

Busy Knitting

I have finished the body and 2 sleeves for my Winding Path sweater.  I used size 13 needles for the ribbed part of the body and switched to 15 for the sleeves and neck.  Yes, the neck is the big part done in stockinette. 

All that's left is to sew the sleeves on and seam them together!  

As a side project I've been working on a hat for one of my best friends little boy.  The style she dresses her son in is very preppy, so a monogrammed hat is perfect!  This was very quick and quite fun too!  

Here's my own scallywag modeling his pal's new hat.  I love that face!

5 hours, 1 skein

Every other Tuesday night I host a 'knit together' at my house.  My dear friend, Kate, who first inspired me to learn knitting, helped start it and we have several friends who have come.  3 ladies have learned to knit, and the rest of us pick up new skills as we see what others are doing.  Kate is also the one knitting the Winding Path sweater with me.  This Tuesday we had several hours to get it started.  Here are some images of what we accomplished!

Kate's sweater on the left, mine on the right.

The 'Winding Path' increases

Working k3tog

We had to work some new increases that neither of us had tried before.  We learned the LI(lifted increase) where you knit into the stitch below the next one on the left needle.  However, following the pattern, we were on a purl stitch.  It doesn't look as 'invisible' as everyone says this increase should look, but it's ok.  And after much searching, we decided to make our own video of the LI2-p(double purled lifted increase).  Hope it helps someone out there!

Knock, Knock

Who's there?  A box of 6 skeins of yarn?  Perfect!

French Berry!!!

So, this is the yarn for my new knitting project... a sweater!  My friend, Kate, and I decided to knit a sweater back a couple months ago.  This is a first for us and we were waiting for the holidays to be over.  So, come early January, I went online and ordered my yarn, and here it is!  Cheap (or should we say frugal?), bright, and super soft!  The sweater we are going to knit is Winding Path from the book Reversible Knits: 50 Brand-New, Groundbreaking Stitch Patterns, and can be viewed here on Ravelry:

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/winding-path

I'll post pictures as we knit along.