Adele is done and dusted - she is safely in the completed for 2009 photo album, she is quite a success and done just in time for our impending cold snap. The buttons, well, the buttons I currently think are OK (which means I am pleased with them) as I am still worrying about the impact of such big buttons - but then little buttons would look dumb on such a texture, and well, I guess button-worry is just part of my nature. I have things knitted eons ago that I still have button-worries about, some I no longer actually even have - but y'know I still worry....
So, for now I have cast on for Cosima (a very tasty Berroco item) - with 2 buttons. You might think the fewer buttons the better for a button-worrier - well wouldn't you? Actually no. Fewer buttons means more button responsibility for the two little buttons I eventually choose. It is all very worrying. No photos as yet as I have only knitted a few rows (Rowan - summer tweed in loganberry shade 546 that sends me all wibbly with delight every time I look at it) however it is early days, I need to knit a bit more before I share, in case it all goes horribly wrong.
In the mean time I have suddenly caught startitis after reading Yvonnes blog and want to knit lots of scarves from Jane Sowerbys Victorian Lace Today book. This has meant an afternoon of digging skeins of yarn from window seats and wardrobes and wherever the stash resides in a pleasurable fuzz of yarn/pattern matching - totally unproductive, number 2 child says I looked a bit like a squirrel sorting nuts. I also found some jaeger extra fine merino dk (10 balls yippee!) that might just do another thing from Berroco - but do I start that now before the yarn descends back into the piles of stash or hang out for some Rowan pure wool aran in shade 680 (raspberry) that I can't think of an appropriate project to do anything with?
Hi Juliet
Adele looks great, buttons included! And such a nice name for a knitted garment, I think. I love both Cosima and Eastlake, although anything from Norah Gaughan usually makes me weak at the knees (Hubby wishes he still had that effect on me....)
Deb
Posted by: Deb | February 02, 2009 at 10:56 AM
I think the buttons on Adele are splendid, as is Adele. I always like the look of moss stitch, but my moss stitch is so floppy that there's no point in my attempting large amounts of it.
I faved Eastlake on Ravelry on the weekend. Are you on Ravelry? I'm chronicknitting.
Posted by: Helen | February 02, 2009 at 11:16 AM
I'm so impressed - another FO already! Love how offspring no. 2 likens to a squirrel. It did make me smile! Are you buried under lots of snow? We've never had as much here. I need me some gloves with fingers asap!
Posted by: RoxyKnits | February 08, 2009 at 07:00 PM
I love your Adele--and I think the buttons look just fine! I'm loving your new yarns--and the colors make me giddy inside, too. Cosima is lucious. And Eastlake is one of my favorite Gaughn patterns!! Wow. I may have to just copy what you knit for the rest of the year...
Victorian Lace Today is amazing, isn't it. I feel the same way--I just want to knit a bunch of things from it.
Posted by: Jeanne | February 09, 2009 at 09:10 PM