I didn’t have a lot of knitting time today, as I had to get some chores done, and we had a few more errands to run, but I did get a little time in on the sample gansey, aka Dolores’ gansey.
One of the features of ganseys is adding the wearer’s initials on the bottom front edge. So I got the D knitted…
And also got a start on the pattern part of the body and started the gussets for the sleeves.
I know it’s hard to see – one of the reasons I didn’t want to use black yarn for this is that it is super hard to photograph. But with a little more progress it will be a bit clearer. This sampler is moving along pretty quickly, though! How are your projects going?
Quite A Yarn 
How helpful, now Delores won’t forget who she is! I knocked a few mini quilts out of the queue and now will catch up on the cowl before heading out to Seattle on Wednesday. Then it’s all knitting since I can’t take my machine with me.
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Nice! You are getting a lot done! Enjoy Seattle 🙂
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Yes you are brave to knit a gansey in black! LOL! But you are using your stash, so that’s awesome!
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LOL – true. Any other color would have been better! The great part is this yarn is left over from knitting a cable sweater for my DH, which he requested in black. 🙂 But getting rid of some of these scraps will be good!
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Dolores is going to demand that all her knits be monogrammed:) It looks great!
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Yes, this is probably setting a dangerous precedent! 😀
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Oh wow Dolores is getting her own Gansey! That’s just going to be too cute for me to handle. What a great way of sampling though.
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The book I will be knitting my real gansey from takes you through knitting a little sampler gansey anyway. It is a nice way to have you try out the different techniques and so on. So I thought – why not resize it for Dolores?
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I hope Delores appreciates her custom sweater. I haven’t been able to knit as much as usual as I was home visiting my parents and spent more time talking than knitting.
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Nice! Glad you are getting some good visiting time with your parents 🙂 Sometimes it’s nice to just hang out and talk, especially with family!
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