Done and New Project Thoughts

Gausta is done. Turned out long, but the men in my family tend to have long torsos so I should find a taker for this one.

Next up is a simplified and modified version of Suitable Fair Isle by Lori Ihnen from Knitters Magazine, Fall of 1996. 

I have had three skeins of chocolate brown and about the same amount of a light tan, called parchment, worsted for forever. They seem to like each other very much.  The problem is that they add up to about 600 grams and the worsted sweaters I've been making are 730 to 760 grams. I was looking for ideas that were mostly two colors, but with some bit of otherness. This model looks like it will work. Instead of doing the while fair isle thing, the wide bands will be just chocolate and parchment. The narrow bands will be black background and red for the pattern. Same red and black I just used for Gausta. The narrow bands are edged by a few rows of yet another contrast color, but I don't think it adds that much, so I'm skipping those.

I also think the welts will be black, just to make sure there is enough of the browns.

Other modifications will be gauge, of course and making a fully fashioned sleeve, of course, and probably making it a pullover. The model is a V neck, but I'm leaning towards my normal crew neck. That decision is weeks away.

In other knitting news, I am finished with the first draft of all the writing for TKGA Level 2, and all the knitting. I spent this morning working through formatting and flagging where I need to add or relocate references. Tomorrow I plan to take on the bibliography, which will be a pretty big job. I expect I will want to rework a few swatches. So, there is quite a bit of work to do yet. I hope to have it ready to go in a few weeks.