Natalie Knits

Today I had lunch with my friend Melissa. It was so good to catch up, even if just for a few minutes-- I am really hoping we find time to knit next semester when we both have a break from teaching (and have things like prelims to worry about instead...). As I've been feeling, good friends are hard to come by, and good knitter friends are even more rare!!

So, a few weeks ago when school and teaching were feeling slightly overwhelming and I was feeling blue, I found that my LYS had malabrigo on sale, and I couldn't resist. It had been quite a while since I had bought yarn-- I find that having time to knit usually means I have more need for yarn, so no knitting = no new yarn. But I am missing my knit-time, and I needed something luscious to get me back on track. And there it was-- red and purple malabrigo chunky, enough skeins to make the drops caridgan I've had my eye on for a while, ever since I saw it over at Flint Knits... and then found myself revisiting her blog just to look rather frequently.

I also began to search on ravelry for other drops cardigans, to see how much success everyone was having. I determined I might need to do a bit of knitty math before I was sure I'd get it right, but I measured. And calculated. And swatched. Twice. And finally I cast on! Malabrigo chunky is so amazing to work with-- so so soft (as I mentioned to my friend Molly, you can even put it right on your face!) and it goes fast. So my 2 pathetic afternoons of knitting in the last month have amounted to the back of my sweater almost being complete. Woo-hoo! At this rate I might have something new to wear by thanksgiving...