i adore what Heather did with her EBTKS! cap-sleeves! what a fantastic idea! it really thrills me to see knitters take these designs and make them their own.
Glenna's EBTKS
Glenna completed her EBTKS!!!
Glenna and her EBTKS
Glenna is knitting EBTKS and i really enjoyed reading her post about it, so i asked her if i could share it with everyone who reads the Yarnplay blog and she graciously agreed.
('Everything But the Kitchen Sink' sweater, from the book Yarnplay, mix of worsted-ish-weight wools on 5.0mm needles)This is, to say the least, a very addictive project. It's like when I first started a fair isle sweater about a year ago, and had to keep knitting "one more row" because the next row was going to have something different and the anticipation was awesome.
It's the sort of project that has you sitting down to "just knit a few rows," and then suddenly before you know it, your neck is cramping up and your tea has gone stone cold and you realize you've forgotten to heat up dinner, and even though you were going to have a nice relaxing Friday night knitting in front of a movie, it's far too late to walk down to the video store now because it's Friday and anything good was probably already signed out about five colour-changes ago, but you just can't stop knitting because your world has shrunk to the single task of figuring out what the next ten colours will be. (It is probably appropriate to mention at this point that I have a very limited social life.)
Anyhoo. It's a raglan pullover with tall stretches of ribbing at the waist and sleeves, knit in the round and then the sleeves and body are seamed together at the end. I added 1 inch of ribbing to make it 8 inches instead of 7, and will probably add another inch to the body so that it comes over my waist (I'm 5'9" and a 21-inch sweater doesn't do it for me), but other than that the only requirement is to just keep changing colours in whatever fashion you want, every 1-4 rows. The book recommends using a minimum of 18 yarns. I think I've got about 27:
My slightly-blurry heap of yarn leftovers, suddenly returned to good use through this sweater and its addictive qualities. Uh, this may not be a project suitable for travelling.)All of these yarns, with the exception of 2 balls that I purchased just to add in, are either idle stash-leftovers from past projects (this project is definitely Knit-From-Your-Stash approved!), or single-balls that I snatched from projects-in-waiting that I thought could stand to miss 50 yards or so. It's all in the area of blue, green, red, or purple, but it's pretty impressive how much the tone of individual yarns change depending on what other yarn you put next to them. Thus the addiction. In the progress pic above, I've just finished the ribbing and have only just started to repeat some of the yarns - i wanted to go as far as I could without repeating anything. Now the shake-ups will start ;)
Today I'm planning on doing one or two other things besides being consumed by knitting (damnit), but all in all I can see this project being a pretty quick one. Wouldn't be surprised if I''m wearing it before St. Patrick's day.
Jayne's EBTKS
Jayne has just completed her very fab EBTKS! she used 33 different yarns and posted a list of the yarns that she used on her blog. check it out!
everyone has been knitting Poppy because you get to put your own spin on the design. however, if you really want to make a personal statement you should give EBTKS a whirl. with this design and each knitters' individual stash it would be pretty difficult to make the same sweater twice!
look familiar?
check out Jayne's lovely EBTKS in progress!