Nominated for the most boring knitting pattern in the world…

• Posted by Kamicha on May 4th, 2008 filed in Project Spectrum

…Chevron Sweater.

If somebody wonders why there is nothing happening in this blog lately, you can blame the Chevron Sweater. I decided to concentrate on knitting it and just it. And because it is boring, I’m not too surprised that all the other activities seem to be so much more tempting…

I usually don’t concentrate on one knit, but this one was in too great UFO danger zone, especially considering the yarn investments (I tried first with Yeoman suggested in the pattern, then with this Colourmart silk - and end up ordering another green for one stripe). Silk yarn in its all loveliness is not really fun to knit. I don’t mind the unstretchiness of it, but it splits like there is no tomorrow. And talk about hiding those split plies to smooth silk surface…

But I’m quite curious about the result, so there is a positive side on this project, too!

The first sleeve is almost finished. I have to say that half of the body is knitted with these sleeves, so no wonder it takes time…

I had a yarn diet, too, but I slipped a bit to get some motivation to knit the chevron. I will make another hippy pair of socks with this lovely and quite tranquil shade of Silk Garden Lite (#2021).

There was also some Wendy’s yarns on my LYS, I especially liked Supreme, mercerized, but not too hard cotton. This lovely cool beige shade with mauve undertones really caught my eye. Cardigan, perhaps? I have only one ball of this for swatching purposes… …just waiting for inspiration!