Quixotic Pixels

I’ve been steadily plugging away at Klaralund. Here are the front and back pieces. I’ve followed Allison’s lead and deliberately made sure the striping didn’t match up. I didn’t want to end up with “almost-but-not-quite” matching stripes. I thought that would look far worse than these happily mismatched pieces. I’ve got part of the first sleeve done as well and hope to finish it off at tonight’s stitch and bitch.

I tried working on Sam’s tiger sweater yesterday afternoon, but after many sessions of knitting and ripping the intarsia tiger, I had to concede defeat. While I’ve got the intarsia technique down for vertical color changes, I think I’m doing it completely wrong for changes on the diagonal. I keep ending up with gaping holes. Hopefully, one of the knitting geniuses at Purlygirls can help me figure out what I’m doing wrong. Otherwise, I’m going to call it quits. I’ll just knit the big green patch and use the duplicate stitch to add the tiger…not quite an elegant solution, but at least I’ll be able to move on.

I also tried swatching for my Gerbera sweater, but quickly realized I was going to have to become more comfortable knitting continental before the swatching process was going to be meaningful. I’m trying to do stranded knitting holding one color in my right hand and the other color in my left hand. I can do this, but I’m still feeling awkward and my tension is uneven. I think I’ll have to do a practice project first. Do any of you have any suggestions for a beginner project for stranded color knitting? Ever feel like you’re in over your head??? I certainly do. :boggled:

Despite these little set-backs (it’s difficult learning new things!), I’m feeling pretty good about my knitting…especially since Claire now fits into some of the sweaters I knit while I was pregnant with her:

She looks so sweet in this little lacey cardigan I made for her. Unfortunately, she’s got a very grumpy expression on her face in this photo. She assures you that teething is not fun at all, no matter how nicely you’re dressed.

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