I’m excited to be back on the bandwagon of doing the weekly Yarn Along with Ginny after taking a few weeks off. We finished just before vacation, but I realized I never blogged how much the kids have been enjoying reading from the Chronicles of Narnia (specifically, ‘The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe’) this summer. They really wanted to continue on reading at night even though we had no school books to read for the summer, and we thought they might be ready for this series. I was a little nervous it would be too much over their head, and therefore be a big flop, but there was no need to worry, as it might be Silje and David’s new all time favorite book.
The book we have lists what I consider an incorrect order of the series, as I like reading them in the order in which Lewis published them, not in the chronological order in the history of Narnia. To each his own, I guess.
This sweater has been revisited after a tearful frogging session a few months back. As I neared the end of the body of this design, I was really not liking the fit on my dressform, and realized that it was not turning out how I wanted (and I still had a lot to learn about planning for ease in a garment) and I frogged the whole thing. Needless to say, I have been very conscious of ease in my designs since then. I still loved the design idea, though, and I had all the yarn for it. So I bravely started again just before our trip, and then the lace portion was my plane knitting. I’m very grateful that knitting needles are once again allowed on planes.
I’m hoping to have this pattern out by October at the latest. My big debut in a national knitting magazine is in October, and I’d really like to have at least one more pattern under my belt before I get what I hope will be a big boost to my pattern sales. I’ve recently had one more surprising pattern for a summer top (which won’t be published until next Spring/Summer of course) get accepted for publication, and I’m waiting for the yarn in the mail so I can cast on and get it done ASAP. So until the yarn for that project comes in the mail, I’m desperately trying to finish the last sleeve of this sweater so it won’t have to be put on hold again.
Hannah says
August 29, 2012 at 1:58 pmOh, it’s pretty knitting. I hope you manage to work the pattern out the way you want it to.
I think that reading The Magician’s Nephew after The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe makes it even more magical. My son and I did it that way around and with the revelations at the end of the book it made so many things in the second make sense (I haven’t worded that well but I’m sure you’ll get the drift!). We sat with mouths gaping as we took it all in!
momto5 says
August 29, 2012 at 3:00 pmhow exciting getting patterns published.
the sweater your working on is lovely so far. good luck 🙂
Mom says
August 29, 2012 at 3:36 pmThat sweater looks so good I want to wrap it around me. It would also be a good design for a lap blanket or afghan. (Sorry, I’m longing for cold weather right now!) 🙂
Charis's Mum says
September 1, 2012 at 8:07 pmI LOVE The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. My mum read it to us many times growing up.
Anonymous says
September 3, 2012 at 12:12 amI know you cannot tell us what magazine your pattern will be in, but can you give us a hint?
Thanks:)