the blue blog archives: tuesday is knitalong day

This weekend, I got to do some in person weasley knitalonging. When I saw her at KnitNY on Saturday, Jenn was just starting her first weasley sleeve. And I was just finishing one.

MA is also working on a sleeve. Ann too! I'm sensing a trend here. Katie says she may or may not be done with a sleeve (kids aren't that easy to measure!). Meanwhile, Peggy is just getting started on her HP sweater, but get this, she admits to having never having actually read the books or seen the movies! Cool.

Attention, attention! We have another finished pooling scarf! Karen's scarf is absolutely beautiful and checks in at 7 feet long! There's a close up pic here.

And the Banffs are back, baby. Helene is 3/4 of the way done. Hooray! And Lisa just finished hers. It's looks super on her! I love these Banffs so much. Someone please stop me from casting on for another one!

Update: For those who have recently asked me about the intarsia on the weasley sweaters, here's a picture of the wrong side of the "H".

And here's a link to an "intarsia how-to" page that I put together when I was making little tiger hats a couple of years ago. Hope this helps!

posted by alison at 8:38 am | in weasleys

Comments

I do believe I saw you wearing your Banff at Rhinebeck and thought how great it was. Ahh ...go ahead do another color.

Posted by: Cindy at November 16, 2004 12:07 PM

Just started HP sweater #1 (well, it's called #2 on my WIP list) last night...woo-hoo!!!

I think I'm going to duplicate stitch the letter - mainly cause I don't know if the kids want "H"s or their own initials, LOL...

Posted by: Eklectika at November 16, 2004 3:15 PM

Hi Alison, Love your work and your blog. I was playing around with fonts in MS Word trying to make a J for my DD in the same font as the "H" and "R" but coming up empty. Also, heard on the ample-knitters list that you were going to try to upsize the Rosebud? Thanks.

Posted by: Julie Y at November 16, 2004 6:30 PM

OK, please forgive me-as much as I like felted tweed it is not building up quick enough for me and I am not liking the weight of the cloth. So, rip it goes and my plan is to resize and do it in a worsted tweed (probably Jo Sharp) in similar colors...Noah is rough on his clothes and I need a heavier sweater.

Posted by: amysue at November 16, 2004 9:48 PM

yea! everyone is making such great progress with their weasley sweaters! i've got about five inches of the back knitted up...hopefully i'll have a picture to put up soon. it's such a quick knit, so i'm really optimisic that it'll be done in time...for Christmas.

Posted by: heather at November 17, 2004 12:40 PM