This morning, Issue 46 of Simply Knitting magazine dropped through my letterbox. I was a bit distressed to begin with, as I have so much wool and such an enormous backlog of knitting magazines to read that I almost didn’t want to see anything else that I might want to knit!
Thankfully this feeling soon passed, and just as well. There are two fabulous jumpers in this issue that I can’t wait to get my needles round.
I never thought I’d be getting excited about a 4-ply Fairisle jumper, but this one’s such a pretty shape! The pastel colours aren’t really to my liking, so I looked up the yarn online and discovered that it comes in a lovely set of darker shades as well.
The yarn is Debbie Bliss Rialto, and the colours from left to right are black, red, pink, deep purple, purple and teal. There are also a couple of lovely blues, a dark green and a rusty sort of shade. I think I’d like to see the colours in person before I splash out on buying it. I’d need to be sure that I had the right amount of contrast to make the pattern changes stand out, but enough tonal similarity for the hues to work together.
This design was pretty much guaranteed to make me fall in love with it at first sight! In Colinette One Zero, it’s a big chunky jumper with a deep v-neck and cables. What’s not to like?
Again though, I’d probably go for brighter or darker shades. From left to right, Rio, Blue Saturn, Magenta, Alizarine, Black and Raspberry.
I’m still knitting my stripy silk socks from Issue 43, although they need to be finished in a week’s time, for my father-in-law’s birthday. (As seems to be traditional with first socks, I thought I was knitting them for myself, but they turned out much too big!)
After that I need to finish the body of the Point 5 raglan bolero that I’m writing a pattern for, and I’m still trying to decide exactly what to do with my Debbie Bliss Soho and the lovely buttons I bought to go with it.
Oh, and then there’s the Interweave Apres Surf hoodie, for which I have the yarn already. Mind you, that’s a 4-ply lace pattern, so I’m not going to get through that in a hurry! Maybe a big Colinette jumper would be the perfect project to knit alongside it.
I can’t wait for it to be properly Autumn! The weather’s much nicer when it’s cold enough to wear all of these lovely jumpers.