Wednesday, January 23, 2008

diving in head first

Some time ago our KAL hostess asked on her blog about our "dream" projects and techniques that might be getting in the way of starting that project. I said my project would be one of Eunny Jang's fair isle sweaters and that I'd probably start with her Endpaper Mitts pattern. I threw that plan out the window and dove right into the Venezia Pullover from IK winter 06.

I was initially inspired by a ball of Kureyon Sock I purchased on an impulse. I'm not a sock knitter and a plain camisole didn't seem special enough. Something stranded was the way to go so I did a mini swatch using a free chart I found online. I don't know what I was afraid of because it was fun and not too hard. On Ravelry, I saw a Venezia using only 2 colors and I knew that's how I had to use the Kureyon sock. Additional details are on my Ravelry project page.

5 comments:

Cass said...

ohmGOSH it's AMAZING!!! It looks SO GOOD! I'm terribly impressed. Care to share what you've learned so far about colorwork?

LotusKnits said...

Your sweater looks AMAZING!!! What a great idea for that Noro sock yarn!

Chelsea said...

Nice work!

Rachel said...

It seems to be a day of saying Wow. That's all I can say!

Oh yeah, I agree with Cass...care to share what you've learned so far?

VeganCraftastic said...

Holy wow, that looks gorgeous!