New Vogue, New Interweave, New projects
Wow, the fall issues of both VK and IK are real winners. It's quite rare that both magazines do it for me at the same time!
I'm swooning over Eunny's Tangled Yoke cardigan (and I see other knitters have fallen hard for it, too, 300+ Ravelrers have it queued!!) but I'm having a tough time picking a yarn. The Felted Tweed is so scratchy and gross (to me!), and I all the other thin yarns I know and love are either multicolored (hello, koigu!) or what I have in my stash is too dark for this design (Trilly, I have a sweater's worth in dark chocolate which will hide the gorgeous details) and the yarn is discontinued. Any suggestions on a good yarn, 6 sts/inch, preferably with some soft of texture that won't hide the details?
The other IK sweater that got me is the Cobblestone Pullover, which (full disclosure) I've already started. I'm using stashed Charmed so I don't feel too guilty about starting yet another project, plus all that stockinette in the round is perfect knitting to do while surfing blogs . . . not that I don't have other "perfect knitting" already. But who's counting the projects? Not me. (Ravelry is)
Strangely what called to me the most from the Vogue was the little cabled capelet my Michael Kors. And trust me, I am not the cape type. We'll see if that one ever makes it onto the needles. I also liked the new Twinkle cardigan in it (better than the one in IK, for my taste), but I've only just browsed this one so there may be other gems in there I haven't seen yet.
Progress on other projects continues at a snail's pace. I put everything down this weekend to crank on the blanket I'm knitting as a wedding gift . . . the wedding is Labor Day weekend, which I realized last week is in exactly 1 month! So I set my mind to it and knit a third of the blanket over the course of two days. If I had to I could probably knit it in a week . . . let's hope it doesn't come down to that!
6 Responses
connie
I love the tangled yoke cardi as well. As far as substitutes to Felted Tweed, there’s cotton glace, Blue Sky Alpaca and Silk or Alpaca Sport.
Rebecca
Mission Falls 1824 Cotton might work.
Gina
I had sort of the opposite reaction — there really wasn’t anything in either magazine that demanded my attention. I think these issues will be the ones that I visit later and wonder why I didn’t cast on 10 new projects the day the arrived. Admittedly, Eunny’s Cardigan caught my eye, as did Mary Jane Mucklestone’s Fair Isle sweater. I’m just too chicken to steek. I wonder if Gems Merino would work, although you’d loose that tweedy effect…
Annie Driscoll
I love Felted Tweed, but I think you could also look at Lavold’s Silky Wool, which seems to me to have much of the same drape, and plenty of crispness for the cables—it was designed for cabling!
Lovely sweater—good luck. :)
jody
although i couldn’t disagree more about felted tweed (it’s one of my faves!), here are a couple of felted tweed alternatives:
- aurora 4
- classic elite classic one fifty
- filatura di crosa zarina
and i agree with gina above, louet gems opal could work too.
KelInCal
August 08, 2007
I loved both magazines, too! There’s usually not much that I want to knit from VK, but this time there were more than in IK. Good luck with that blanket!