Knitting - River Forest Gansey

Looking back through my past 12 months of posts I was struck by how little I was blogging about knitting on what is ostensibly a knitting blog.

I do, in fact knit. I don't, however, have much patience for photographing/downloading/editing/uploading etc of the images. Part of the issue is that my computer is old and slower than dirt (shh, don't tell the Italian, he's been pointing out for some time now that I need a new computer.)

So I'm going to try to streamline the process a little bit in the hopes that I will actually post photos more often, even if they are low quality.

My latest knitting project is Jolene Trace's River Forest Gansey (from Melanie Falick's Handknit Holidays) which I am making for my son. My LYS Purlescence had a sale on Cascade 220 earlier in the summer and I enjoy working with that yarn, plus it is moderately priced (even more so when it is 40% off!) So I took Buddy and we picked out this beautiful orange together. I love making things for the kids in bright colors, and this orange looks great on him.



I finished the pieces two nights ago and got them blocked this morning (with the boy's help, of course). This is just the back. The pattern is a pullover which I have converted to a cardigan with a plan to put a zipper in the front. I am really excited with this project - it has been fun to knit, the boy is excited and I think he will get some good use out of it.

I was less than thrilled with the quality of the pattern - there were too many little mistakes. Nothing that I couldn't work my way through, but with a better job of editing the pattern it would be more user friendly.