January was blue. February is cashmere. March will be vintage.

So far I've been inspired each month to knit something really special. The january sweater was inspired by the beautiful blue yarn that I acquired at the January clearance sale at Wild & Wooly. February's cashmere hourglass sweater came about when I decided to recycle the yarn from an old Banana Republic sweater that lay forgotten in the closet for at least five years. (Update coming on Friday!)

March's sweater will be from a genuine vintage pattern (probably from the 1950's) that a customer brought into my LYS about a week ago. She was wearing her mother's cardigan that her grandmother had made from the pattern decades ago and it was gorgeous! She wanted to make one herself and was asking Johanna to help her work through some of the terminology. Both Johanna and I were really taken with the cardigan and the customer obliged us by letting us copy the old pattern. I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I broke down last week and went looking for the perfect yarn. With the help of Johanna and Wendy and Cara (who was visiting Boston for the weekend and just happened to be in my LYS with Wendy when I popped by!), I finally chose Jo Sharp Silkroad Aran in opal gray.

Commence swatching!