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Misplaced stash

Thu, 2009-08-06 19:34 — daninaa

When knitting this sweater for my older son, I couldn't find some of the wool I had purchased, and had to purchase more. After I finished it, I found the first stash, and so knit the younger guy a similar sweater, but since there wasn't enough wool and the color (sapphire blue, Brown Sheep super wash worsted) had been discontinued, I bought a contrasting color. No, this isn't an ad for Human Rights Watch; we live in Michigan. For the longitudinal stripes, I knit length-wise. I'm happy with both results, and the older guy was complimented on his sweater at the Centre Pompidou!

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Fri, 2009-08-07 10:46 — Joe-in Wyoming
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Very nice work. -- Books,

Very nice work. -- Books, knitting, cats, fountain pens...Life is Good.

Fri, 2009-08-07 07:33 — Cairo
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Nice sweaters. The hooded

Nice sweaters. The hooded one's my favorite. Great work; I hope I can get to makeing a sweater of my own some time soon!

Fri, 2009-08-07 06:48 — daninaa

Thanks for the compliments.

Thanks for the compliments. Yes, Albert has hit upon the perpetual problem of poor planners. I think that a friend's newborn daughter is about to get a yellow sweater. The pattern is my own amalgam of a pattern from a Dover 1970's book about guernseys (I think it was called bars: four rows of stockinette and two of reverse stockinette) and an incorrectly knit version of Barbara Walker's coin cable. When I started the second sweater, I discovered that I had incorrectly knit the coin cable pattern in the first sweater, but also, I preferred the incorrect version, so I ripped out the correct version and started over with the incorrect one. I can write it down for anyone who wants it; just email me at danschul@umich.edu. My kids also have completely different personalities; only the sweaters are vaguely similar.

Fri, 2009-08-07 05:35 — albert
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Well done! But won't you

Well done! But won't you have to knit another sweater with the leftover yellow?

Fri, 2009-08-07 04:47 — jonathan1986
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wow....very very nice, and

wow....very very nice, and Parisians won't compliment everything, so well done!!!

Fri, 2009-08-07 01:43 — knitmaniac

These are two great sweaters

These are two great sweaters modelled by two good looking boys.

Thu, 2009-08-06 23:51 — stch
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Both sweaters look

Both sweaters look wonderful! May I inquire what pattern you used?

Thu, 2009-08-06 21:24 — Crafty Andy
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Both sweaters look very nice.

Thu, 2009-08-06 20:44 — jessemkahn
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okay, okay, since NYB

okay, okay, since NYB started in on it, yes handsome children AND sweaters. good work all around!!

Thu, 2009-08-06 20:44 — TomH
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Great work. I love the

Great work. I love the yellow stripes!

Thu, 2009-08-06 20:18 — New York Built
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Elegant solution, artistic

Elegant solution, artistic solution, familial solution, personal solution...Man, have you racked up points on this project. I have a son and daughter, now adults, and I have yet to have had the same issues recapitulated by either one. You make handsome children and brilliant sweaters, Dad!

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