So I have one Christmas gift (yes, 2011) that's ready to be shared with you all. It's a Paulie with a few mods, which I made for my mother.
I made the sleeves long instead of three-quarters length. Of course, I ended up making them a little too long so perhaps I should have stuck with three-quarters....
I left off the shawl color because I thought my mother would find it fiddly. 
And I added a second color to the stripes, knitting it with Plucky Knitter Primo Fingering in Flying Monkeys with stripes of Dandy Lion and Faded Grandeur. In the skein, these colors were much more distinct, but I enjoyed how they blended together once knit. Flying Monkeys is an incredibly interesting gray-brown and I may have mentioned before that I think Dandy Lion is the perfect yellow.I really enjoyed this knit and my only complaint is that I started it in September with the expectation of being able to finish it for her birthday in October. When that failed, I still thought that I'd easily finish it for Christmas. Well, at least she was able to wear it as driving me to the airport after Easter.
PS: Thanks for the advice on continental knitting! After taking a look at my sister-in-law's hands during knitting, I've concluded that I was wrapping the yarn around my fingers too much. It's been easier going since I cut out a few wraps, but it's still pretty sloppy.
2 comments:
LOVE the combo color stripes. They are a nice subtle touch, but it totally adds interest. From what I can see in the pics, this sweater looks (as usual) BEAUTIFULLY knitted. So, I hope you keep up with the Continental, so you can knit up the world, just like the girl in that book.
Thanks, kid! Unfortunately, this sweater was just the one that convinced me I needed to learn continental so I could knit more stockinette sweaters with fingering yarn more quickly. But it was not actually knit using continental. I'll post a picture of my continental knitting pre-blocking and you'll see how desperately different from my English knitting it is...
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