A modest boast

[pensnest]

I spent a fair bit of time knitting last year, and created a sweater each for my nephew and niece.



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Adorable Nephew is wearing something from Elizabeth Zimmerman's book, a bottom-up seamless sweater with yoke, a first for me, as generally I have done my seamless sweaters top-down. I used a bunch of blues in it, mostly what I had left after a couple of other blue ones, but some strands of mohair got in there, and this and that. It turned out rather well.

Adorable Niece has a textured sweater, also seamless (because, no sewing!), with a big fat cable on one side of the front. Garter stitch for most of the body, and stocking stitch for the sleeves—it was a quick knit, and a bit dull, but very effective.

Beast and I tried a new class today, 'Zumba Strong', which is sort of like minimal dancing combined with boxing, as there's a heck of a lot of jabbing, uppercutting etc. I'd been hoping for a bit more dancing, maybe with weights. Still, a good workout.

*sags into chair*

Comments

[frausorge]

Ooh, lovely work on both! The asymmetrical effect on the one for your niece is really cool visually (even if, as I see you said above, it wasn't exciting to make).

[pensnest]

Yes, it's a simple design but very striking, I think. The cable is quite fat. It's a jolly good pattern, very easy to follow, and at least having a simple thing to knit means you can watch telly while knitting.