New Year's Renaissance

 It seems all I do lately is knit, but the truth to be told, I am battling demons, and knitting is one thing I hold onto, because first of all yarn does not asks questions, yarn understand, second of all, I know how to do it. Mostly. Not to mention, that one of the thing is for the New Year's Good Luck sweater, that I only knit on that until it is finish.

I am thinking a lot about sewing, and I do things that takes me closer to sew, got some patterns printed, glued and cut, I have fabrics washed, but for the moment, I am the queen of procrastinating. 

In the meanwhile, as I said, I am holding onto knitting like I'd do it for dear life. 

You've seen, that I finished the New Year's sweater, and by now I managed to block it, and we even took some photoes of it on Saturday. 

Excuse for the missing smiles, part of the reason was that it was effing cold. Norbert even asked if I am sure that it is a good idea to take off my coat for photos in minus C°'s, but at least that I did not want to postpone longer. 

As you see, at the end, I decided on the almostred dark burgundy color, and Elenor Mortensen's Renaissance sweater.

Both the base color and the contrast color was variegated, both was a no-name second-hand find, the burgundy from year's ago, the light white-is/purplish from a few months ago. 

All through knitting, I was wondering, if it was a smart idea to mix not one but two variegated yarns together, because when I looked at my knitting, quite often I could not see the pattern.

However, when I looked it from farther apart, I could really see the lines more clearly: 

So, though, I am not unsatisfied with the results, next time, probably NOT use two colorful yarn, at least one of them will be a solid, or at least semosolid one. 

On the other hand all the yarn came from my stash, only small amount (a few meters) was left, and it blocked out nicely.

As for the pattern, it is well written, as usual (for Elenor pattern's), I only changed my usual added waist-shaping and the longer cuffs.

What I like about Elenor's pattern, that the later ones go beyond the patterned yoke, this one have the majority of the stranded part after separating the sleeves and the body.

Of course, I like the lines of the drawing, though for me it s more rococo than renaissance.

Pattern: Renaissance by Elenor Mortensen

Yarn: Sockyarn

Needles: 2,75mm, 3mm, 3,75 mm

Photos (modelled): Norbert Varga @Bodeszphoto