New Works-in-Progress
First of all, people, thank you SO much for all your kind comments on my waistcoat! I dithered for a while before posting the pictures but am delighted with all the feedback. I don’t think I ever got so many comments.
And now, on to two new sweaters! After the last gauge disaster, I have restarted the Ogee Tunic yet again, this time in Elann Highland Silk, which is a truly wonderful yarn to work with. Really, I cannot recommend it enough. It is a little splitty at times and I’ve spotted a knot or two but it knits up so neatly and with its shine and price, it’s a great deal. This is a picture of the beginning panel at the bottom hem, which I have knitted and frogged so many times that I now know it by heart.
You know, this name Ogee is most unfortunate. Every time I see or read it, it reminds me of a really really awful song Ae Jee, O Jee Lo Ji Suno Ji(O hey, hello there, look here, listen up!) from this late ’80s film called Ram Lakhan. It had some ghastly music which inexplicably became wildly popular. This song is a good example of the godawful depths to which Hindi film music sank in the 80s, when earlier singers and composers aged or died, leaving the field of a variety of Cacofonixes, especially Mohammed Aziz and Anuradha Paudwal who sang this song. The film (and this song) starred the unbelievably hirsute Anil Kapoor, whose unkempt looks were only outdone by his bizarre dancing. How he became a hit star continues to be a mystery to me. But I gotta share it with you folks -
Anyway, here’s something else I started yesterday:
It’s the Cobblestone pullover from Interweave Fall 07, which I adapted to a women’s shaped style after seeing Impulsiveknitter’s gorgeous version. The yarn is the rather promiscuous handdyed yarn that you might recall has flirted with many other patterns and projects already and left them. Am hoping this one will be a lasting relationship! Gauge has been adjusted - mine is 5.5 on bates 4, so I’m knitting a much larger size to get a good fit.