Picture Gallery — Sweaters — 2004
Karen knit this fantastic cabled sweater with Takhi's New Tweed from a pattern in the Lavold book.
Matthew knit this vest for his father for Christmas using Unikat yarn as the main yarn, with Noro's Cash Iroha for the ribbing. His Dad loves turquoise the way that Matthew loves purple.
Adrienne was wearing the right colors, so she got to model the diagonal vest Janice designed and knit, inspired by the diagonal scarf pattern.
Sharon Michalove knit this sweater for her husband, Peter, and he was nice enough to wear it in to the shop just so we could take a picture to show off his wife's wonderful knitting skills.
Barbara knit this wonderful sweater for her Granddaughter.
Nikki is thrilled with the sweater she knit from yarn she hand-painted herself!
The picture at the left shows Nikki actually wearing a sweater while she is knitting it. The picture at the right shows her wearing it once completed, confirming that yes, her boyfriend really is bigger than she is.
Nikki knit this fantastic sweater out of Noro's Silk Garden (or was it Kureyon?). I believe the pattern was obtained online, but for the life of me, I cannot recall the source. I'll have to ask Nikki and get a link in here.
Nikki knit this short sleeve sweater out of Paradiso, an incredibly soft yarn.
Janice is working on a dramatic scarf that combines several different yarns, and she is wearing a short-sleeved sweater she knit from one of our new yarns.
Kate knit the Einstein Coat from Sally Melville's "The Knit Stitch", which we decided would be the next knit-along project because of the number of people who have already said they wanted to knit the coat or have already started doing so.
Kate hasn't decided if she will be offering a class for knitting the "Pythagorean Theory" Sweater Kit from Twisted Sisters, but if she doesn't, she may well have to organize a support group for it! What a glorious sweater!
Nicky did a fantastic job knitting this light and lacy summer sweater out of Mirto.
Tami has really enjoyed wearing the gorgeous sweater she knit out of "Fun".
Sharon knit this fantastic sweater with two strands of yarn: Ironstone Sherpa and Jo Sharp Mohair. Also, don't miss the exquisite sweater/shawl pin!
Janice knit this fantastic short-sleeved sweater. I cannot recall the yarn name at the moment, but she used a wonderful checkered texture stitch and added a contrasting yarn for the border treatment to stretch the amount of yarn she had to sweater quantity.
Matthew knit this fantastic vest from a Mountain Colors kit (which includes the yarn and the pattern) for his Mother. The vest is knit from side to side, and it went incredibly fast (completed over a weekend at a volleyball tournament).
This yarn was supposed to tempt one of the webmaster's colleagues into knitting, but alas, we dropped the ball on that one. Instead, she got Matthew to knit this sweater for her (but only after all cajoling failed to get her back on her "needles" as it were).
Kate had been wanting to knit this sweater (from a magazine, but I forget which issue), and when the new Silky Wool came in from Elsebeth Lavold, Kate knew she had to knit it in every color that this wonderful yarn comes in. Well, she is clearly pleased as punch with the result, and who wouldn't be?
Matthew knit this vest from the Sliding Loop Vest pattern in Knitters magazine (Fall issue, a few years back). Rick Mondragon created this beguiling technique for joining intarsia sections one at a time, without having 13 zillion bobbins of yarn to get twisted up. The yarn used is Noro's Kureyon, which does the striping all on its own.
Tami did a wonderful job with the light, airy tank top -- the very thing for keeping cool during our hot, muggy summers.
This gorgeous vest was created by sewing yarn between water soluble interfacing and tulle, resulting in an eye-popping, one-of-a-kind work of art. The yarns used are Trendsetter Segue, On Line Linie 42 Plush, Carnival, and Crystal Palace Splash.
Matthew fell victim to a "brain fever": After knitting a few multidirectional/triangular scarves, he had to figure out how to knit a vest with similar construction. Here it is.
Knitter's magazine was the pattern inspiration for this cardigan that Matthew knit for himself, but our own Janice Pea inspired Matthew to combine two very differently shaded dyelots of Lorna's Laces Superwash into the sliding loop vest. Matthew added the sleeves when he realized he had more than enough yarn. Notice that the dye-lot stripes in the sleeves are virtually indistinguishable with the dye-lot change worked after 10 to 20 rows; with the vertical columns of intarsia, however, the changes are hard to miss.
Chris gets a big hug from his sister in appreciation for the "Wonderful Wallaby" he knit for her out of Kuryeon by Noro. What a brother!
Kate is thrilled to be showing off her Svale Sveater. Svale is an incredibly sumptuous blend of cotton, viscose, and silk from Dale of Norway. It's light, soft, and perfect for spring and summer.
If you've never seen a sweater designed with the techniques of Horst Shultz, this drop-dead-gorgeous sweater (modeled and knitted by Maxi) is a glorious example.
Barb shows off the shimmery top Kate knit for her daughter.
Matthew designed this cable sweater for Froehlich's Swiss Chalet yarn, which has unfortunately been discontinued. Free Pattern Available
Matthew designed this sweater using what Elizabeth Zimmerman calls Prime Rib stitch (a slipped stitch similar to Brioche Stitch and Fisherman Rib Stitch. The yarn is Muskoka, a merino wool.
Matthew designed this sweater for Lopi yarn (a bulky icelandic yarn). Although the parallelogram motif is icelandic, it would have been more traditional to have the pattern at the waist, cuffs, and yoke and to have the body of the sweater in a solid. Also, natural colors are more traditional, but no one has ever accused me of being traditional.
Matthew knit this cardigan out of a wonderful bulky yarn from Noro called Piero, which has since been discontinued. Note the matching socks.
Matthew knit this raglan sweater from the top down in a merino yarn from Schaefer called Elaine. The colorway is called Indira Gandhi.
Matthew designed this sweater using two yarns carried together. One is a solid purple mohair/wool blend; the other is space-dyed mohair. The ribbing is worked with a solid green mohair/wool blend instead of the purple. Matthew wrote the pattern for this sweater and has made it available, but only in one size (XL).
Matthew designed this sweater for his sister. She insisted on having the only one, so the pattern was burned after the sweater was completed. She has asked that it be explained that she did not know that this picture would be the last exposure on the roll of film or she wouldn't have been so silly.
This sweater, knit from Manos del Uruguy yarn, was Barb's SECOND sweater! Barb is a fearless knitter who just jumps in with gusto, having learned very early on that frogging can be fun.
This T-shirt was knit from Melange from Cherry Tree Hill yarns. The yarn was discontinued at one point, but Cherry Tree Hill brought it back! The pattern is available at the shop.
A bunch of knitters in the shop pooled together to buy the yarn and knit this sweater for Sharon to express our deep appreciation of her developing such a fabulous line of yarns in her shop.
This sweater was knit from ironstone yarns.
