Fiber Dreams

I’ve been pawing through the Interweave Knits fall issue that arrived the other day. At first glance—and second through fifth—I decided that I have got to knit Eunny Jang’s new pattern, Tangled Yoke. OMG. It’s fabulous. Love at first sight. I don’t know how in the world she had time to design a sweater with all the stuff she was doing getting her very first issue of IK out the door, but she did. Another drop-dead gorgeous sweater is the Dickinson Pullover by Kathy Zimmerman. I love it. I’m hoping that some yarn or other that I already have in my stash will do for these sweaters. Ooh, yeah.

In addition to pulling together a nice collection of knitwear, Eunny did a little redesign between the covers, bringing large photographs of each of the designs all in one place near the front of the magazine, and separating the patterns themselves to the rear of the issue—there are page numbers everywhere, referring you back and forth so it’s easy to find the big picture from the pattern page, and the pattern from the picture page. Nice. There are some interesting looking articles in this issue, too. Definitely looking forward to spending more time with my magazine.

Little by little I’m trying to catch up on my blog reading. Late last night I was perusing a couple blogs, and found to my delight that Domesticat has released a wonderful sock pattern called Drunken Bees Socks. I wonder about knitting them and wearing them with Anne’s Bee Shawl. Li got the stitch pattern from a Japanese book, Knitting Patterns 300. I checked out her link to Amazon Japan’s web site, put it and one other Japanese stitch book in my cart, and found out, to my horror, that shipping would be $30 for these two slim volumes. Egads. Sure wish I knew someone going to Japan who could pick up some Japanese stitch books for me. They’re fabulous. That shipping sure isn’t in my budget right now, though. Ouch. Guess I’ll be waiting for a while to get any Japanese books.

I stumbled across another wonderful new free sock pattern: Elinor Brown’s Poseidon Socks (links to a .pdf file). Nice stitch pattern that she knit up in a gorgeous color reminiscent of a tropical sea.

I can tell I’m starting to get over my sock aversion. I’m looking fondly at new sock patterns again, and wondering what kind of stitch pattern to use on the socks I’ll be knitting up for Dave with the Maizy I got from Crystal Palace.

In case you were wondering, the 72% cacao Ghirardelli Twilight Delight dark chocolate square that Dave brought home for me last night worked a miracle cure. I’m feeling much more myself again today. Finally. Woot! Oh, and I wasn’t the only one who wasn’t in the mood to go to the concert in the park last night, so we didn’t go. I got more knitting done. Between that and the chocolate, I’m feeling much better.

Edited to add: Karen wrote to let me know that the Captcha software I was using to keep away the spam that Akismet doesn’t catch wasn’t working at all, and that because of it she couldn’t comment. I deactivated that software, so if you’ve been having that problem, too, it should all be fixed now. Thank you, Karen!

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