I heard about the yellow Van Gogh exhibit. Thanks for sharing the article. I had a yellow kitchen for 14 years. I loved it. Now my living room is half yellow. I do love its warm vibe especially living up here in the cold north all winter.
I'm glad you love it! I haven't published the pattern yet. I'm planning on releasing it in late summer—in time for sweater season. Publication will be announced here, and paid subscribers will get a code to download a free copy of the pattern.
Your question made me stop and think and I realized that most time I am attracted to the color of a sweater and then I look at the pattern to see if it is my style. I seldom use the same yarn because most of the time my LYS doesn’t carry that brand. I’ve not had the best of luck buying on-line. Sometimes when I receive the yarn I don’t like the feel of it in my hands or sometimes the color doesn’t match the photos from the printed pattern or the on-line image. I’m a photographer and my monitor is color calibrated and I will get a match if the sending monitor is also color calibrated but many of the content creators don’t calibrate. So my way to get around this is to order one skein and swatch. Then order the project quantity if I like it. If I’m ready to start it is aggravating to wait two weeks or so to actually put the project on the needles.
Thanks for your perspective, Billie. I have my laptop hooked up to a large monitor, and I know that photos look very different depending on which screen I'm using to display them. I find it very challenging to choose colors from a screen. When I'm planning a multi-color garment, sometimes I'll ask the yarn company to pull skeins of the colors I'm considering and send me a photo of all the skeins together. That way I can assess value and contrast before I commit to a purchase.
First, you look great and I love the sweater! I would absolutely make this one.
I looked at the lampshades in AD and agree with you that the mohair is a little creepy. Then I dove into Ravelry. I think the lacier ones look good and I liked your Lumen design. Overall I think it’s clever and a fun thing in decor ideas. I would likely do a covering of an existing lamp shade.
I love this chaos sweater. I am inspired to cast one on as well. I live in my current "sweatshirt sweater" which was my "Stripey Sweater" without the pattern, because I could take a beloved yoked sweater pattern and add 10 row stripes to it myself rather than give Andrea Mowry more money. I used a cone of fingering weight navy held with collected other rustic fingering weight yarns. The sleeves mostly matched each other but intentionally did not match the body of the sweater.
Vance Frost's post should be required reading for anyone with aged parents. My husband's father lived to 97 and my mother is now 99 and in assisted living. That she hates. And tells me constantly that I "put" her there. Just for fun I'll throw in that we (hub and I) received little to no help from our siblings. Fortunately, in both cases, the parents' savings took care of the financials. So my new mantra is from Vance "Don't wait for gratitude. Don't punish yourself for irritation."
I ama Towles fan, so I put this one on hold at the library. I have to respond to your question with this - I once made my husband a Dale of Norway sweater in the exact colors of the pattern and followed the pattern! A friend looked at me and asked "Who are you and what have you done with Mary Lou?'
Like you, it's a rare day when I follow a pattern by another designer without making some sort of modification. I often don't even follow the pattern when it's my own design! But sometimes, the designer really did make a great choice of yarn and color palette.
Please tell me more about all of those ends that had to be worked. Did you knit them in as you went? Seems to me that you probably did since you finished, blocked, and wore this gorgeous outfit in just a few days. And by the way, it looks awesome on you! Great job!!!
I love the sweater so much! I just purchased the Jill Draper minis. Can't wait to knit it. I love her yarn, and designed with it several years ago.
Also, thanks for the article on Parents with Dementia. I think so many of my conversations with friends these days are about our aging parents. Mine are 86 and 91 and still live alone in my childhood home. They both still drive and seem to be able to take care of everything but do need each other for daily tasks etc. to sort of make a "whole" person. They're doing well but I see them struggling a bit more each month.
You're fortunate both your parents are still alive and doing relatively well. My mother is still sharp as a tack at 93, but my father passed more than 20 years ago. Mom moved into an assisted living apartment near my brother and his wife about 2 years ago, and she has done a fantastic job of making sure the appropriate power of attorney and medical proxy forms are in place.
What a great sweater, Sandi. Just my style - comfy and loose. I love the way you randomly used colors and I certainly have ample stash to create my own! So yes, I do enjoy finding my own color way for patterns that I choose. Can’t wait for the pattern.
I just finished Rules of Civility a few weeks ago. I look forward to being reacquainted with Eve in that short story.
Cheers to longer days and more sunshine in our lives!!
I really love this, and I don't usually like all garter stitch patterns. The colors really pop, but I can't wait to see the finished gray sweater. And also to check out the book for my book group. Thanks for the suggestion!
Great sweater. Great pic. And thanks for another reminder on elder care/years of self coming. As for yarn, have had a flock and fiber goats for nearly 25 years. Stash before flock was varied. Flock determines current use. Wool is dominant, whatever shade, spin run or bin is available. Farm is fullup and marketing not my specialty.
I heard about the yellow Van Gogh exhibit. Thanks for sharing the article. I had a yellow kitchen for 14 years. I loved it. Now my living room is half yellow. I do love its warm vibe especially living up here in the cold north all winter.
Love the new striped sweater.
It's good to hear from you, Kristin! I hope you and Mark are doing well, and that the lambs are plentiful this year.
What is the pattern? I love it.
I'm glad you love it! I haven't published the pattern yet. I'm planning on releasing it in late summer—in time for sweater season. Publication will be announced here, and paid subscribers will get a code to download a free copy of the pattern.
I can’t wait for the pattern. It looks like my perfect sweater
Thank you!
Yes just what I want.
Your question made me stop and think and I realized that most time I am attracted to the color of a sweater and then I look at the pattern to see if it is my style. I seldom use the same yarn because most of the time my LYS doesn’t carry that brand. I’ve not had the best of luck buying on-line. Sometimes when I receive the yarn I don’t like the feel of it in my hands or sometimes the color doesn’t match the photos from the printed pattern or the on-line image. I’m a photographer and my monitor is color calibrated and I will get a match if the sending monitor is also color calibrated but many of the content creators don’t calibrate. So my way to get around this is to order one skein and swatch. Then order the project quantity if I like it. If I’m ready to start it is aggravating to wait two weeks or so to actually put the project on the needles.
Thanks for your perspective, Billie. I have my laptop hooked up to a large monitor, and I know that photos look very different depending on which screen I'm using to display them. I find it very challenging to choose colors from a screen. When I'm planning a multi-color garment, sometimes I'll ask the yarn company to pull skeins of the colors I'm considering and send me a photo of all the skeins together. That way I can assess value and contrast before I commit to a purchase.
First, you look great and I love the sweater! I would absolutely make this one.
I looked at the lampshades in AD and agree with you that the mohair is a little creepy. Then I dove into Ravelry. I think the lacier ones look good and I liked your Lumen design. Overall I think it’s clever and a fun thing in decor ideas. I would likely do a covering of an existing lamp shade.
Thank you!
That's the type of sweater I like to wear. Definitely buying it.
I like the look of the pink, fuzzy lamp but what a dust catcher (and cat fur). I can't imagine how you would keep that clean.
Thank you!
Mohair shades? Maybe, if there were a home with no cats, no dog, no male teenager, and a cleaning service. Not in my house.
They're weird, right?
Yes, the mohair shades are weird. They look like alien creatures😂
I love this chaos sweater. I am inspired to cast one on as well. I live in my current "sweatshirt sweater" which was my "Stripey Sweater" without the pattern, because I could take a beloved yoked sweater pattern and add 10 row stripes to it myself rather than give Andrea Mowry more money. I used a cone of fingering weight navy held with collected other rustic fingering weight yarns. The sleeves mostly matched each other but intentionally did not match the body of the sweater.
Your sweatshirt sweater sounds fantastic!
Vance Frost's post should be required reading for anyone with aged parents. My husband's father lived to 97 and my mother is now 99 and in assisted living. That she hates. And tells me constantly that I "put" her there. Just for fun I'll throw in that we (hub and I) received little to no help from our siblings. Fortunately, in both cases, the parents' savings took care of the financials. So my new mantra is from Vance "Don't wait for gratitude. Don't punish yourself for irritation."
Thanks for sharing Sandi.
Thank you for sharing your lived experience. And, for what it's worth, I appreciate you for the care you are giving your mother.
I’m glad you like it. My thought from the photo was that you must be unhappy with the sweater. Glad to read you just don’t like selfies. Me either.
I ama Towles fan, so I put this one on hold at the library. I have to respond to your question with this - I once made my husband a Dale of Norway sweater in the exact colors of the pattern and followed the pattern! A friend looked at me and asked "Who are you and what have you done with Mary Lou?'
Ha!
Like you, it's a rare day when I follow a pattern by another designer without making some sort of modification. I often don't even follow the pattern when it's my own design! But sometimes, the designer really did make a great choice of yarn and color palette.
Enjoy the book!
Please tell me more about all of those ends that had to be worked. Did you knit them in as you went? Seems to me that you probably did since you finished, blocked, and wore this gorgeous outfit in just a few days. And by the way, it looks awesome on you! Great job!!!
Thank you!
I did knit in the ends as I went along, and wrote about it here: https://sandirosner.substack.com/p/the-downside-of-knitting-narrow-stripes?r=4ooj6
I also wrote a separate post for paid subscribers that includes full details of the technique along with videos here: https://sandirosner.substack.com/p/how-to-weave-in-yarn-ends-when-knitting?r=4ooj6
I love the sweater so much! I just purchased the Jill Draper minis. Can't wait to knit it. I love her yarn, and designed with it several years ago.
Also, thanks for the article on Parents with Dementia. I think so many of my conversations with friends these days are about our aging parents. Mine are 86 and 91 and still live alone in my childhood home. They both still drive and seem to be able to take care of everything but do need each other for daily tasks etc. to sort of make a "whole" person. They're doing well but I see them struggling a bit more each month.
You're fortunate both your parents are still alive and doing relatively well. My mother is still sharp as a tack at 93, but my father passed more than 20 years ago. Mom moved into an assisted living apartment near my brother and his wife about 2 years ago, and she has done a fantastic job of making sure the appropriate power of attorney and medical proxy forms are in place.
What a great sweater, Sandi. Just my style - comfy and loose. I love the way you randomly used colors and I certainly have ample stash to create my own! So yes, I do enjoy finding my own color way for patterns that I choose. Can’t wait for the pattern.
I just finished Rules of Civility a few weeks ago. I look forward to being reacquainted with Eve in that short story.
Cheers to longer days and more sunshine in our lives!!
Have you read his other two novels, A Gentleman in Moscow and The Lincoln Highway? They are both terrific.
I've read A Gentleman in Moscow but not Lincoln Highway - I'll add it to my queue!
Enjoy!
I LOVE the stripy sweater! You are beautiful in it!
Thank you!
I really love this, and I don't usually like all garter stitch patterns. The colors really pop, but I can't wait to see the finished gray sweater. And also to check out the book for my book group. Thanks for the suggestion!
All garter stitch is an unusual choice for me, too! But I like the texture at this gauge, and I think it enhances the stripes.
Enjoy the book!
Great sweater. Great pic. And thanks for another reminder on elder care/years of self coming. As for yarn, have had a flock and fiber goats for nearly 25 years. Stash before flock was varied. Flock determines current use. Wool is dominant, whatever shade, spin run or bin is available. Farm is fullup and marketing not my specialty.
Thank you!