Old Habits Die Hard

Here are a few photos of past projects that I completed this spring.

The baby set is a pattern I made up as I went along, as I practised intarsia. I made it mostly out of a knubby cotton. This is my first cotton project and its a nice change. Not quite the stretch as other fibers but I thought it would be prudent as the baby (Max) came in May.

I knit the "shrug" for my best friend Pamela DiMauro who works as a printer/artist at the New Grounds Studio in Albq. New Mexico. You can check out some of her work at the Studio's website: www.newgroundsprintshop.com She is currently showing her work at the Creamery Inn in Downsville, WI. She traded me a beautiful print for the shrug which I knit in local alpaca. It's so incredibly soft. A lot of people gave me crap for this design..."where's the rest of the sweater?" But, I noticed that in this month's Anthropologie catalog they had something very similar....I based the design out of a pattern from Scarf Style, and tweaked it to fit Pam's shape and personality.