Time to start dreaming of fall sweaterrs

It was over a week ago that a friend mentioned getting the new Vogue Knitting.  I started to check my mailbox with an eager hand.  I bet you’ve heard this story before.  As the week progressed, my forays into the Hyde Park Post Office became an increasingly intense experience, filled with anticipation, and always ending in frustration.

Need I say that the fabled Vogue Knitting has not yet arrived, much to my chagrin. 

Thursday night at group there were copies on the table.  I had managed to avoid looking at copies at every drugstore and newsstand in town, but I could not resist the pull of that magazine lying right in front of me, taunting me.  I am still awaiting my own copy, one that I can pore over and slowly savor the contents.  Also at knitting was a copy of the new Interweave Knits, but on that front at least my prayers have been answered.  The Interweave Knits was at home waiting for me as I walked into the kitchen in the wee wee hours of Friday morning.

I haven’t really read it yet, I am saving it for my trip to Tennessee next week, but I have looked at the patterns and there are several that have caught my eye.  I suppose you are not surprised.  I probably have a lifetime’s worth of projects to knit and I am still seduced by the promise of the new.

I love these:

There is some Rowan Felted Tweed hiding somewhere in this house that I *know* will be perfect for that wonderful cardigan by Eunny Jang (middle photo) and the others are high on my list also.  But we know how I am with lists, what is high on my list is only as high as the next magazine or knitting book, when my thoughts and dreams become completely reorganized.

There are several other sweaters of which I like particular details, but they are not jumping to the top of the list, and there are that I love but about which I have serious reservations about how they will look ON ME, so they may in fact just remain dream sweaters and never be seen on my needles:

Both of these really intrigue me.  The Teva Durham (on the right) is something I could have worn when I was younger and I am not sure if it will flatter my now bustier figure. 

The little jacket by Wenlan Chia just intrigues and there is a part of me that thinks it may be more flattering than one might think.  But then again, I have been wrong before…..

There is one more sweater that I just *must* knit.  I saw it on the back cover, and it is not a pattern from this magazine, but I have always said that I find the magazines just as valuable for the advertising as I sometimes do for their featured designs.

This sweater by Classic Elite has simply taken my breath away with its simple classic elegance.  The book is already on order.