the blue blog archives: <i>i can eat it?</i>

This is what the boys used to say when they were little and something looked colorful and yummy to them. (Thank goodness they would ask! Usually it'd be like paper or some sort of small choking hazard toy.) And it's all I can think of when I look at this Trekking yarn.

One front panel of wee one's Candace sweater done! I like the way the color sequence came out this time, with mostly brown and pink and cream and one little stripe of the orange near the top. The front panel took just over one complete color repeat, so that means that to make the second side match, I'll have to wind off pretty much a whole 'nother front panel's worth of yarn to start at the same point. I'm going to have some pretty weird leftovers after this one's done!

posted by alison at 11:30 am | in wee's bee's knees

Comments

hey....love that colorway in trekking yarn...could you please tell me what the color# is?? many thanks!!

Posted by: Rosemary at December 6, 2006 12:40 PM

Yummy, yummy, yummy! She will be a little Neapolitan!

Posted by: kyrie at December 6, 2006 12:42 PM

It's lovely! Isn't it fun to find other uses for sock yarn? :)

Posted by: Kristy at December 6, 2006 1:12 PM

That does look good enough to eat!!! When he was a few months old my younger grandson would try to eat my hand knit socks - I guess he thought they looked good enough to eat.

Posted by: Donna at December 6, 2006 1:43 PM

it looks like that brachs candy i used to see as a kid. i think it had coconut in it.

it's darling!

Posted by: minnie at December 6, 2006 1:55 PM

I don't remember what kind of candy it is, but it looks just like that. Chocolate and coconut and pink (don't know). They are stacked like a sandwich. They are good. I used to get them all the time from the grocery store. Brach's makes them I think. Your colors make me want some!
Good enough to eat indeed.
:)

Posted by: Micky at December 6, 2006 3:34 PM

Beautiful sweater! I read a bit too fast and thought you had decided on Candace for wee one's name!

Posted by: Bonny at December 6, 2006 3:37 PM

hehe I was tricked by "Candace" for a minute too!!

Perfect for the Candace sweater to look like Candy!! YUM! Is that the high dollar discontinued Trekking colorway?

Posted by: Laura at December 6, 2006 7:01 PM

It's great!!! I love it.

Posted by: Tiffany at December 6, 2006 7:12 PM

Lovely!

Posted by: beverly at December 6, 2006 7:21 PM

It looks so wonderful! I'm curious... how do you plan to handle the back? Make it not match? Knit two panels and give it a center seam? I never thought about striping yarn in sweaters until just this very moment and now I want to know how it's usually handled.

Posted by: Sachi at December 6, 2006 7:56 PM

Er... I just answered my own question by clicking over to the pattern.

Posted by: Sachi at December 6, 2006 7:57 PM

I love the Bee's Knee's patterns! Candace will look adorable on your wee one.

Posted by: Angela at December 6, 2006 8:24 PM

Totally looks edible! *grin*

Posted by: Carol at December 6, 2006 9:59 PM

Those colors make me think strawberry and cream, and chocolate chip ice-cream! Yum!

Posted by: Emy at December 7, 2006 1:25 AM

Looking great Alison. I usually knit a sleeve next so there's not so much waste when matching the stripes. Quite often after the first sleeve is done I'm quite near the beginning of the pattern repeat for the other cardigan front. Hopefully it will be the same for you too!

Posted by: Holli at December 7, 2006 3:05 AM

I love the pink and chocolate but not the orange. :/

And it totally does looks like Brach's candy...too funny.

Posted by: Michelle at December 7, 2006 6:24 AM

Mmmmm. Neapolitan ice cream is what I first thought. The orange kinda spoils it though. It's gonna be a really fun sweater!

Posted by: Carla at December 7, 2006 8:26 AM

Including the winding off of excess yarn, how many balls of yarn do you think it will take?

Posted by: Maggie at December 7, 2006 9:16 AM

Maggie, I think most of the Bees' Knees patterns are written to use just one 100g ball of sock yarn (like Opal or Regia). The back is usually done in the contrast color, so the patterned sock yarn is really just being used for the fronts and the sleeves. I should have plenty in my 100g ball to finish those 4 parts, even with the winding off of excess yarn.

Posted by: alison at December 7, 2006 9:18 AM

Mmmmm. Very neopolitan!

Posted by: Lara at December 7, 2006 3:23 PM

Wait a sec!!!! This is Trekking yarn?!?!? Colorway, please? Too cute and yummy looking!

Posted by: JennyRaye at December 7, 2006 3:52 PM