TERRY'S LOPI FAIR ISLE COAT ~FINISHED

Dear Gang,

I just got a letter from Terry, our sailing knitter!  Here is a picture of her FINISHED Lopi cardigan and a note from her.  Congratulations, Terry!  It is wonderful.

My Lopi Nordic Fair Isle Sweater Coat is DONE!! Attached is a photo and it is also posted on my blog. Of course, I now live in the tropics so I certainly don't need a wool sweater (although it was a chilly 66 degrees this morning so I wore a lace wool shawl for a couple of hours). I'll be sending this off to a good home somewhere.

Back to more unfinished objects...the list is finally shorter!!

Terry

www.sailingknitter.blogspot.com

Ravelry ID: sailingknitter

                               

 

                                                                               

My MLC project is this Lopi Fair Isle sweater/coat for myself. How old is it? Well, I bought the yarn in October of 1998, BUT, I didn't allow myself to start it until I completed grad school in 2001.

So why has it been shoved into a bag and pushed to the back of the closet? 1) It was too hot in Sacramento to knit with wool in the summertime - especially when the knitting got so large - sitting on my lap. 2) I was still knitting fair isle work with one hand - and using the "lift each new yarn change from under the old yarn" method. Thus the yarns twisted horribly each row and had to be untwisted. Yuck! So much time wasted. 3) I lost the bag in the back of the closet and got too involved with other exciting projects. 4) I actually started the sleeves once, but discovered that I was using the wrong sized needles.

The yarn is beautiful Icelandic wool Lopi light weight, and I still love the colors and design, so I've decided to finish the sweater. So...I got going on a sleeve. What??? Where's the skein of black yarn??? I've lost one color!!!! I tore apart all of my yarn storage (hiding) areas and it is not to be found. So, I ordered the yarn - can you believe that it is still available??!!!

I was planning to wait until next summer to pick up the yarn in the USA when I go to knitting camp and to visit my sons in July. But, what do you know? I FOUND one ball of the black yarn tucked into another project when I tidied up my bedroom. So now I have no excuses. Gotta go get knitting.

Terry

Comments

[Beverley McKenzie]

Terry it is beautiful, I am so pleased for you that you got it finished. What an acomplishment, you should be proud.

[Laritza]

It is very pretty. I am glad Terry finished it.

[Fran]

Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for posting it.

[Jeanette]

Very nice! It's such a nice feeling to finish a large project. The triangular buttons are great, bet they took some finding.