So even though I haven’t been posting I have been knitting. I recently finished a test knit for my friend Liz called Fillory, which is a shawl with buttons! The pattern isn’t published yet, but hopefully Liz will get it online soon 
I picked Madelinetosh dk in grasshopper, which is a garishly bright radioactive green. I love it though!
I really like the shawl, but I have a hard time wearing it, because the opening is so big I think. So I tend to fidget with it a lot while I wear it. If I’m not wearing a sweatshirt I pull it over my shoulders like this sometimes:
And check out the sweet buttons I used! I stole this from an old gigantic sweater I found in our entry way closet. (I really wanted the whole sweater, but there was no way it was going to fit me, sadly. So I took the buttons instead)
You can also see part of my tattoo peeking through there!
I figured I would also post about a sweater I knitted this summer, because I really like it. It’s the Effortless Cardigan by Hannah Fettig. I bought the yarn (Madelinetosh dk in Lichen) while I was in Denmark last fall, but I didn’t get around to knitting the sweater for a while. Per Liz’s advice, I only cast on a third of the stitches for the front, so that they wouldn’t be as droopy.
This was the sweater wasn’t as bulky in the front. (And I used less yarn, muhahaha!) This was my first top down sweater, and I really liked this construction. I have Barbara Walker’s book about knitting from the top down, and I have yarn that I want to knit a top down sweater from, so this was a nice introduction to that.
I was worried the yarn would pool and make it ugly, so I alternates skeins on the body. I’m really happy with how it knitted up though!
Right now I’m knitting Stephen West’s Clockwork shawl and this weekend I’m doing to do a top down sweater KAL with my BFF Mallory! She is going to knit the Rosamund cardigan and I’m going to knit the Featherweight Cardigan also by Hannah Fettig. I’m using Dream in Color Smooshy in Romeo Blue (for some reason, I haven’t taken pictures of the yarn for this sweater) and Gold Experience. I want to do a thick stripe of blue and a thin stripe of gold, but I’m not sure how I will do the buttonband part and I’m afraid I will run out of blue. So we’ll see what happens with that.
