What I did do yesterday was start something new. I really have no business starting anything new. I have sixteen WIPs and don't really need anymore, but it seems, I want more. I would like to say that it is because of my happiness with my last few projects, but no. There are always more things to want to make, more yarns to want to work with, more colours to play with. It all is so exciting to me.
I started to make another Lipstick sweater by Joji Locatelli. I loved making my first. It's my dressy sweater, the one I wear when I want to feel good. It's a very simple sweater, but it is an interesting simple sweater. There are twisted stitch bits, reverse stockinette bits and a bit of very simple lace. I did not do the lace bits last time and because of the yarn, I won't be doing lace this time either.
As you can see, the colour is very busy. It will be the star of this show. I watched a podcast earlier this week, where a sweater they were showing, was multi coloured in a very similar way to my Hacho yarn and they found the reverse stockinette side almost looked nicer than the outside. Lipstick has a very wide reverse stockinette panel at the center front so I can't wait to see if the same happens with my yarn.
My first Lipstick was knit with Rios, an Aran weight yarn, perfect for the patterns four stitches per inch gauge. My yarn, Hacho, is a DK weight. No way will it make a good fabric at 4 stitches per inch. So I am doing the math. It doesn't take much math because this is such an easy to knit sweater.
It's not much knitting but it's a good start. It's hard to leave the yarn and knitting to go to the sewing room but to the sewing room I must go. Need the boxes for the kitchen and tights for the cold.
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