Well, I've got a baby asleep in my arms (and the other one sitting next to me playing a game on his computer), so I'm finally able to sit and do some blogwork.
Vogue Knitting
I picked up the new issue of Vogue last week on a quick trip to the bookstore with the kids. It's not always a magazine I buy, but as I've noted many times in this blog, I'm liking different styles and sizes right now, so I feel like a new knitting dimension has been opened up before me. It's exciting.
(Not, of course, that the smaller sized items I've started are going particularly fast!)
Anyway, I figured with Matthew carrying a truck book, a Bob book, airplane stickers, and two new and very cuddly stuffed animals, I deserved a quick peak at magazines. So, I picked up Vogue and thumbed through it just enough to see two things - a really really cute tank top and a great hooded jacket made out of Koigu.
That's all I needed to see! I knew I had to have it, especially for the hooded jacket. So, not wanting to take the fun out of flipping through it later and savoring each page, even the ads, I headed for the checkout counter.
Later, when I got time to flip through it (I think it was actually a day or so later), I discovered that the Koigu pattern uses Kersti, a worsted weight Koigu - not the sock yarn that I'd expected. I haven't seen the Kersti in person yet, so I'm going to keep my eyes out for it. The variegated doesn't come in quite the range of colors of the dk weight Koigu (at least not yet), but I'm still interested in seeing and feeling it. I'd like to do the pattern in multiple colorways to have a progression of colors sort of like Charlotte's Web. (I'm working on plotting a design that does this right now, in fact.)
Oriole Vest
The vest is coming along. Tension looks better this time, but after the color swap, it looks so different than it did the first time. In my head, I keep seeing the bright palette of the first attempt. Now, it's so much more muted and pale. My partner likes it better. I'm not 100% sure, but I am sure that I won't start it again! (That would be 4 times, and even I am not that compulsive.)
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