stricken, and need

Thanks for all your comments on the cardigan front. I've knit about as much now with the twisted border stitch as without, and I do think it's better. Pictures coming over the weekend if I remember.

Meanwhile, in a period of desperate procrastination, I found this knit-along blog. I *love*--can I say that again--I *LOVE* that sweater. I am stricken with that must-knit feeling that sends my wallet scurrying to hide underneath sofa cushions. But in all seriousness, do any of my trusted knit friends out there know this book? Apparently it's called something like "New Style of Heirloom Knitting" but I can't make head or tail of the asian sites on which it's sold. I can't even tell if it has english translation with it, though I'm hopeful. I've been looking at aran-type sweaters anyway, and the gorgeous twisted stitch panels on that one are about to send me over the edge. If anyone out there is familiar with this and in a helpful mood, I'd love to know your opinion of the book. And whether that sweater pattern comes in my size which I was about to write down and then decided against it because bust measurements can be so, you know, revealing somehow. Does it have charts? Because I don't think I'm going to knit that sweater from a word pattern, oh no. I am a chart girl all the way. Any opinions helpful. Thank you.

In other non-news, I've been wondering why I have drawers full of sweaters I don't wear. Excluding the feeling dumplingish reasons, I've been trying to keep track of what it is I always *wish* I had to put on in the morning. Those practical but lovely things I keep missing somehow in the ongoing wardrobe-building experience. The answer, newly revealed to me after three days in a row of wishing for the same thing, is: I wish I had a lightweight off-white wool cardigan. Not a chunky rustic cardigan of big wool. Not a fancy white lace alpaca cardigan (though I'd love one of those too). Not something that screams farmyard nor something I'm afraid to eat soup in. No, what I really need is a plain, off-white sweater slit down the middle front with buttons. Subtle patterning would be ok, but vanilla stockinette would be fine too. So it looks like my next knitting project is all there wound up for me. ("cut out" is a metaphor from the wrong craft). If it's really, really plain I can knit in lectures and maybe make progress next semester like I did on the shawl. Next task: finding off-white lightweight wool yarn in stash. There must be some. Mustn't there??

Comments

[Beth]

http://crossedintranslation.com/

Knit along for the sweater, comes with charts,39.5" and I love the sweater.

to order http://us.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1003858802/code-j/section-books/
also I think Amazon JP has the book and the above site should give you the isbn#

[claudia]

I think Cara at http://www.januaryone.com recently got the book and I'm sure she would be happy to check for you.