Notes to self

I really want to knit the Autumn Rose with the knitalong I joined. And I will! But not yet. My budget has tanked. I think I should practice a little bit of fair isle first, anyways. Since I already have the yarn, I'm thinking baby sweater: you can see it on this page, it's the little fair isle cardigan with peach trim near the bottom of the page (shown with peach pantaloons). I'm actually almost done with the cabled sweater next to it, in a darker shade of peach, but for some reason I can't get the sleeves to work for me. Every time I try to knit them, I screw up the cables. For someone who loves cable barf (the more cables the better!) that is more than a little disheartening!

I have a new technique I want to investigate. I want to learn to double knit. Not in the sense of knitting really thick scarves (I can already do that!), but in the sense of knitting two things at the same time. Like two socks... at once. I am talking about extreme knitting here. Kory Stamper has an excellent article about it from Knitty, Fall 2006- I really have to try it with some self-striping yarn. I want to try plain stockinette socks, so this would be a great time to use some Opal I have in stash, like this

or this