In the Yarn Bowl

Participating in the Yarn Along with Ginny at {Small Things}

This week I’m knitting this sweater for our eldest son, Hunter.  He wanted black, so I found this slightly heathered, charcoal from Cascade 128 Superwash #1913.  It’s as soft as butter. The creamy white is a double strand of Plymouth Select yarn #01 Natural.  I love soft Merino wool!

Once I got used to the chunkier charcoal yarn, I love knitting with it.  This sweater is on a size 6 Hiya Hiya interchangeable needle.  I love this new interchangeable set and I have changed cord length three times on this sweater.  The project is heavy and curling so I feel like I’m might be wrenching on the needles too much.  The right needle has developed a click and I hope it is not a loose connection between the bamboo needle and the metal.

It’s pretty much all about knitting for my reading this week with “Knits Men Want” and “Little Red in City.”  I’m going to make my husband, Kelly, the sweater shown in the photo as my next project, I hope.  The yarn will cost us a couple of Ben Franklin’s.

I’m still slowly reading my other selections from previous weeks too.  It’s hard to knit and read.  Now that I’m straight knitting in the round, I can focus on other things while I knit, like chatting with my friend Connie.  We are meeting today for a Yarn Shop Hop and tea (she might have coffee, heh).

The Stokes bird book is also essential.  Hunter looks out our big picture windows at our bird feeders several times a day looking for scrub jays to scare off.  He noticed a new bird at the feeders this week.  We identified it a Northern Flicker “Yellow-Shafted,” posted it on Facebook, and heard from a couple of expert birders who first thought it was a “Red Shafted” since the “Yellow-Shafted” is more common to the Eastern U.S.  Without being able to see the underside, but noting the red nape, it appears this bird is a hybrid, or an intergrade.

Hunter has a bird list going and he can add this one to his list.