On the needles: Sweaters

I am still hoping that 2015 will be the Great Sweater Year. My goal is to end up with a wardrobe of sweaters that is varied enough that I won't have to wear store bought sweaters anymore. I am already well on my way to that point; at the moment, I only have one store bought sweater that I wear regularly. Then again, it is winter (though not for long, hopefully!). Let's see how this plan will work out when spring and even summer arrives. Maybe I will have to start knitting in cotton.

There are so many sweaters I want to knit. Right now, I am dreaming of cables, and I have two words: Brooklyn Tweed. Ugh, the sweaters are SO lovely. I am also drooling over the yarn, SHELTER. It looks so nice. Hey, it's my birthday soon...

Right now I'm not knitting anything too cable heavy, though - although the previously mentioned Winter Song sweater does have a whole bunch of small, intricate cables all over the yoke..




This even has cabling on the wrong side. I'm not used to it, and I had a lot of problems with it in the beginning! The yoke is split into three parts; left and right front, and the back. I sped through the right and left front, but the back is taking me such a long time, and it's very attention demanding knitting, so not good for TV knitting. Hopefully, this weekend will see me get some real work done with this yoke!

The intricacy of the Winter Song sweater is what made me cast on for a new sweater... and hey, it's a classic: Thermal from Knitty. Even though it's much simpler than the Winter Song sweater, they have one thing in common, and it's one of my favourite sweater styles: They are henley sweaters! I don't know why, but to me it's like the henley is the epitome of the casual, cozy sweater. I have at one point actually owned four of the same henley sweater model from H&M... in different colours, mind you, but still! Something about the buttoned front just speaks to me.

I also find that when knitting, I tend to want to use so many techniques, to kind of show look what I can do, look how talented I am but I can't only have sweaters like that; my style is very casual.




I am also going back to my roots, so to speak, with this yarn, which is all Norwegian. Ask/Hifa 2 from Hillesvåg. I "accidentally" had a bit of a yarn spree, I guess you could say, a while ago, and got yarn for four sweaters(!). I like the yarn, it's at a good sport weight gauge (24 sts) and very good meterage. It's also quite soft in its own way - I like it!

So these are the sweaters I'm currently knitting. I hope I will finish at least one of them in the coming two weeks; I want to knit a yellow sweater in the Easter holidays!

Happy Thursdays!