Dear Kay,
“The Runaway ____.” Anything can be a children’s book title if you use this recipe. The Runaway Pancake. The Runaway Pencil. The Runaway Roto-tiller.
Time for exactly one moment with this Laurel pullover.
Mary was asking what the shade is of this Berocco Ultra Alpaca. It’s 6288, Blueberry. It is the Loch Ness Monster of yarns due to the impossibility of catching a true image of this shade.
ANYWAY.
This Laurel pattern rates a rugged three-skein difficulty from the Rowan magazine folks, and at first I didn’t understand why. It’s a boxy pullover, with not all that many cables wandering around. Cake!
More like a runny pudding. Now that I have managed to skulk to the end of the second sleeve, I get it, totally: the hard part is the fact that the cables shift one stitch at certain points, two stitches at others. Keeping this in my head is like trying to remember my kid’s lacrosse practice schedule.
These cables look so beautifully irregular because they ARE. I ripped back so many single rows that I could have had a third sleeve by now.
The red arrow indicates where I was watching that gruesome episode of Girls and lost track of the cable to the point that it rerouted itself to the one beside it. I was so disgusted with the sweater, the show, everything that I just left it as The Runaway Cable.
But I’m done. It’s going into the blocking parlor for a little spa treatment.
SO happy to have an alpaca/wool sweater ready for spring. Talk about March Madness.
Love,
Ann
PS A hearty “congratulations” to Elizabeth W., who “won” the drawing and is the “lucky” “winner” of the leftover yarns from my Alice Starmore Donegal project. Thank you to all the masochists who offered to adopt these yarns–you dodged a bullet!
PSS Loved all the comments about Girls. Such smart thinking–thanks for weighing in.
Can’t wait to see this done. Also wanted to make sure you saw the bit on msnbc.com where Ryan Gosling says that his filled with knitting. Who knew!
I know the color is impossible to capture, but I really hope it is as vibrant as this picture (rather than as dark as yesterday’s picture). I completely agree with your decision to leave the random cable being extra random. Looking forward to seeing it sewn up!
long ago and far away, I made a sweater designed by Lucy Neatby called “Cables After Whiskey”. Same concept, sorta, and the same amount of fun. I was so much younger then, and so full of knitting energy. Now I’m lucky to finish a cowl or scarf; sweaters drain me! go you!
A photo of a knitted object with a circled area and a red arrow is never a good thing. I had a little cardiac episode but I’m o.k.
I’m glad that you decided done was better than perfect.
Nashville weather must be radically different from these here northeastern parts. Around here, alpaca and wool positively BESPEAK spring. Love thpse cables and wish I were joining it at the “spa”.
LOVE this sweater. And truly appreciate the runaway cable. How awesome is that?
Ah, yes. . .Soul Asylum’s song “Runaway Train”. . .the Julia Roberts film “Runaway Bride”. . .and now the Modern Daily Knitter’s “Runaway Cable.”
Too bad I can’t find some mojo and get some “Runaway Knitting” done!
My son and I loved a book called Runaway Pumpkin! Beautiful sweaters and a nostalgic memory. Thank you Ann.
Hi Ann
Thanx for the color info,
boy it looks different from
the other photo lol
Peace&blessings
Hi Ann
Thanx for the color info,
boy it looks different from
the other photo lol
Peace&blessings
Oh, and I was feeling sorry for myself over the cables in Stephanie White’s Iceland. Putting on my big-girl panties now…
Beautiful color! That sweater has been on my to-do list for quite awhile (since that mag came out). It DOES look easy in the photo. Thanks for the heads up! Looks totally worth it, however.
Yes, the Runaway Whatever has endless possibilities. I like to use The Berenstain Bears and Whatever myself. When we were in the process of moving from one house to another, my favorite made-up title was: The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Crap.
What I want to know is this:
if I run away, will someone send ME to a spa?
Because I could leave tonight. It takes no time at all to pack a bandana on a stick.
Looked at that Rowan pattern, and the cables just made me dizzy. Kudos to you for attempting it. I don’t have nearly enough attention span for cables that go all katty wompus.
The color looks like it must be truly fabulous in person.
I think the runaway cable gives it charm 🙂
I think the runaway cable gives it charm 🙂
the sweater is lovely, “run aways” and all! i’m fascinated, too, by the changing properties of the color. i wonder, what color will it be when you wear it?
speaking of sweaters, a4A just announced a new sweater campaign. i would like to make one this time. any thoughts out thrre for a simply knit (but stunning, of course) sweater pattern?
knit on!
lovediane
I highly recommend Allan Ahlberg’s Runaway Dinner. It doesn’t get much better than that!