I made a preemie hat and blanket for the Stanford winter charity drive. Personally, I think Caramel should go into the modeling business! She is so darn cute!
And I started Tim's unpronounceable sweater. It's actually a lot easier than I thought it would be! I was almost fearing it, but now I am really enjoying how it's knitting up! I see it as a good challenge; not too overwhelming but definitely keeps you thinking!
Here's the swatch I did to get gauge and to play with some of the cable patterns.
The yarn Tim picked out is called Svale by Dalegarn (www.dale.no). It's Norwegian (of course, sinceTim has a thing about Nordic countries. Have I mentioned he wants some Icelandic wool just because of the sheep's name?).
The yarn contains 50% cotton (aka "bomull" in Norwegian), 40 "viskose" and 10% "silke". Shows up kinda shiny-like but man the yarn is splitty, especially when knit with size friggin' 3 needles!
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