DKNY "Aran Forest"
I was AWOL for a while, wasn't I? We were having a bit of a Domestic Disturbance, which involved my getting home on Tuesday right after classes, and Sam driving down towards South Carolina as far as he could get, then spending the night in Virginia, getting up in the morning and driving the rest of the way to a funeral, which he then went to, along with dinner, after which he got back in the car and drove north, stopping finally in North Carolina, getting up the next morning, and driving the rest of the way home, where he arrived in time to be there when the child got off the bus, a chore I had been taking care of, along with getting the child out the door in the mornings, a task which involved a lot of questions on my part -- "What do you generally eat for breakfast?" "Where do you keep your books?" "Do you take medicine in the morning?" "Well, which is it?" "Do you need your tie today?" "Where's the gym bag?" and other such remarks, designed to instill in the child a comforting feeling of safety.
Don't worry, kid. You're in good hands.
So Sam got back and all is well, and I actually wrote an entire blog yesterday but Blogger ate it, and now my chronic low-level annoyance at them has turned into fever, so I think I need to Leave Them. Forever.
But more on that later, probably much later.
For now, since you've been without actual knitting content for so long -- and OH! How important that is! To so MANY of you! -- I present some knitting, specifically, my version of DKNY's "Aran Forest" cardigan.
Front:
and back:
It comes in one size, which is large, very large (that's why it looks so short; it's not short, it's wide) -- but it works fine, as a loose cardigan. At first glance, it looks like nothing more than an easy weekend wrap, but when you're wearing it, you can see people beginning to stare at it out the corner of their eyes, trying to figure it out. Knitters, of course, come up and grab you and tell you about the time they knit it, and which yarn they used, and how much they enjoyed it. It's like a walking billboard: Knitters! Stop and Say Hello!
So don't wear it unless you want to talk.
It originally appeared in an issue of Vogue Knitting many years ago, but the pattern is available also in Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book, so if you're missing out, you can indeed find it without having to pay hundreds of dollars on eBay.
It's not easy; you can't memorize the pattern (unless you're SuperKnitter, I suppose), so it has to be read every line. But it's not as difficult as it looks. You get a lot of impact for a moderate amount of trouble.
And it's a hoot. Aran stitches, taken apart and refashioned at a higher level, into a park. With tulips.
Now that you're done here, by the way, you might as well go on over to Mimi Smartypants, who has recently been experimenting with letting her toddler feed the cat (scroll down, in the Sept. 1 entry). Busy days around here.
And I will go find out if the child has had his breakfast yet. I could get the hang of this.
Don't worry, kid. You're in good hands.
So Sam got back and all is well, and I actually wrote an entire blog yesterday but Blogger ate it, and now my chronic low-level annoyance at them has turned into fever, so I think I need to Leave Them. Forever.
But more on that later, probably much later.
For now, since you've been without actual knitting content for so long -- and OH! How important that is! To so MANY of you! -- I present some knitting, specifically, my version of DKNY's "Aran Forest" cardigan.
Front:
and back:
It comes in one size, which is large, very large (that's why it looks so short; it's not short, it's wide) -- but it works fine, as a loose cardigan. At first glance, it looks like nothing more than an easy weekend wrap, but when you're wearing it, you can see people beginning to stare at it out the corner of their eyes, trying to figure it out. Knitters, of course, come up and grab you and tell you about the time they knit it, and which yarn they used, and how much they enjoyed it. It's like a walking billboard: Knitters! Stop and Say Hello!
So don't wear it unless you want to talk.
It originally appeared in an issue of Vogue Knitting many years ago, but the pattern is available also in Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book, so if you're missing out, you can indeed find it without having to pay hundreds of dollars on eBay.
It's not easy; you can't memorize the pattern (unless you're SuperKnitter, I suppose), so it has to be read every line. But it's not as difficult as it looks. You get a lot of impact for a moderate amount of trouble.
And it's a hoot. Aran stitches, taken apart and refashioned at a higher level, into a park. With tulips.
Now that you're done here, by the way, you might as well go on over to Mimi Smartypants, who has recently been experimenting with letting her toddler feed the cat (scroll down, in the Sept. 1 entry). Busy days around here.
And I will go find out if the child has had his breakfast yet. I could get the hang of this.
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