{"id":718,"date":"2013-11-08T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T15:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annetarsia.com\/?p=718"},"modified":"2013-11-07T06:04:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T06:04:29","slug":"a-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/2013\/11\/a-blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blast from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

I need a new knitting project.\u00a0 Gee, what a dilemma.\u00a0 As you can imagine, I have several (to put it mildly) options, so need to narrow the criteria.\u00a0 Bill and I are traveling to Scotland at the end of the month, so it needs to be portable (no beads, please).\u00a0 It would be nice to knit with Scottish yarn, which narrows the field significantly.\u00a0 Wasn’t I working on a cabled sweater for Bill awhile back that got side-lined for some reason?\u00a0 I knew where I had stored it, and pulled it out.\u00a0 It seemed like just yesterday, but it must have been years ago, that I started the Duxbury Pullover.\u00a0 And, this definitely didn’t deserve to be a UFO, so it is now on the fast track to completion.<\/p>\n

Simply Shetland yarn is distributed in the US by Karen Campbell, who I got to know when we were both working on Level II of the TKGA Master Handknitting Program in the 1990’s.\u00a0 Way before I was teaching knitting or designing, and before she started a yarn business.\u00a0 We were just trying to figure out how to do a perfect seam in seed stitch.<\/p>\n

Fast Forward several years, and the book “Simply Shetland 4, at Tomales Bay”<\/a> was published. I knit the Autumn Rose Pullover (by Eunny Jang) from this book for my daughter, the Box Stripe pullover (by Beatrice Smith), for Bill, and I was pretty sure that I had knit the Duxbury pullover (also designed by Beatrice Smith). Karen verified that I did, indeed,knit one for her company. I think that what happened is that Bill liked the sweater, because I apparently ordered enough Simply Shetland silk & lambswool in colour Lochmaben, for a sweater for him. The book was published in 2007, so I probably started this project in 2008.\"photo<\/a><\/p>\n

I got pretty far along before putting it down.<\/p>\n

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It appears that I was knitting the 45 in chest size, and Bill has, ahem, grown a bit in the past few years.\u00a0 So we got out the measuring tape, and considered whether I should start over with a bigger size.\u00a0 But I probably don’t have enough yarn.\u00a0 The pattern for this size calls for 11 balls, and I have 8.\u00a0 I am assuming that the knitting has the other 3 balls in there.\u00a0Karen assures me that I can order more yarn, if needed. We decided that I will finish the sweater in this size, and it will fit somebody.\u00a0 Also, Bill really wants to lose a few inches, and this is good motivation!<\/p>\n

The silk and lambs wool blend is luscious, and when I began knitting, I fell right back into the rhythm.<\/p>\n

I haven’t knit a cabled sweater in awhile, and have been having a longing to do so, and am relishing this project!\u00a0 If you also would like to knit Scottish this season, yarn and patterns can be found at Feralknitter.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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