I didn’t feel much like a photo shoot today, so I’m going with the popular “headless shot”.  It’s my own raglan style pattern made with 6 skeins of Plymouth Suri Merino, color 2037.  I did keep very good notes and created a lace chart so I’m planning to write a pattern for it at some point.

In addition to being behind on my own blogging I’ve been behind on every one’s.  I’ve been slowly catching up and I ran into an “Autumn Rose” post by Claudia last week.  I was overcome with the need to make the sweater immediately.  Never mind that I have tons of fabulous yarn in my stash just waiting to be knit!  Never mind that I have never done fair isle (this hardly counts)!  I need specific wool that only Jamieson’s of Shetland can provide!  Better yet a kit!  Never mind that I myself am a purveyor of yarn and could decide to stock Jamieson!  I don’t care if it’s a little scratchy!  Must have wool now! 

It arrived yesterday and I now have this...the beginning of my first sleeve of my first fair isle sweater.  Corrugated rib is now the bane of my existence and apparently I am not the only one to ever feel this way.  Some even go as far as to say it is evil.  Now it seems that I have reached a point in my knitting world where I go on with very limited knowledge.  See…this book “Simply Shetland 4″ seems to believe that I possess in my little brain innate knowledge of fair isle charts.  I do not.  Based on this picture and my colorless chart, I can guess that I continue on in old gold and sunrise.  However, even knowing that made it difficult to figure out until I JUST NOW realized that the boxes to the right of the chart correspond to the colors even thought there are no boxes by the first few lines of the chart.  Had I looked ahead in the chart I would have realized that they expect a knowledgeable knitter to realize that the boxes extend to the repeats as well.  Whew…at least I can continue now.  If my sudden obsession with Autumn Rose happens to transmit to you, be sure to join the knit along.

PS I’m working to rebuild the gallery so previous posts may still show up sans pictures.  I’m going to get it all fixed again someday…or not.