Author: Dan

Tomorrow being the longest night of the year, it seems fitting to share Virginia’s latest knitting project.

This kid’s sweater (a custom knit for a friend’s grandson) is about as cheery of a sweater as one can get. Complete with blue skies, green grass, a beaming sun and…

…a caterpillar. Knit with superwash yarn (Creative Focus Superwash from Nashua), it should prove to be both easy to care for and easy to wear.

Of course, cute kid in the sweater will be far away, so you’ll just have to imagine it on a toddler.

Longer days approach, bringing sunshine, warmth and the melting of all of this:

I’m ready.

As promised in an earlier post, I’m sharing with you two projects that Virginia has completed in the last little while (and, to make sure you didn’t think I was resorting to using this blog just to promote holiday shopping.)

First, is a cute cardigan that seemed to take no longer than a few days to complete. It’s a pattern by Sarah Hoadley from the Winter 2009 issue of Interweave Knits called Icelandic Star.

It’s made with four colors of Cascade 220, and only taking 5 skeins of the yarn to complete makes this a pretty affordable sweater to whip out (easy for me to say “whip out” since I didn’t actually do the work – we all know if that were the case I’d be talking about completing it for the next 6 months).

The next project is another sweater. This one, made for me, is from a suitably titled pattern called “Drifter.”

This one is made from a super soft, and warm Rowan yarn called Cocoon. It’s also a Rowan pattern (in Rowan 48) from designer Erika Knight.

I was kidding about the aptly named pattern. I’m much too much of a homebody. Not sure there are many drifters out there that would spend Friday nights sitting on the couch making a wee little owl or a fuzzy bear-a-knitting.