This sketch dissects the sweaters structure, and gives an idea of what I THINK it will look like when done। This is, of course, a long way off, as I haven't even

got the basic 8 inches done before I start the front and back decreases....

I got this pattern at a yard sale in Maine, while I was visiting my dad. There was a pile of old knitting mags. in a box, and one of them, this 1946 gem had LOTS of great looking patterns(and a few real howlers). My history with knitting seems somehow connected with these Maine visits: I started knitting in earnest after buying a copy of "Stitch 'n Bitch" at the Bangor airport, which had the book, oddly, sitting among self help books, christian lit. books and romances. In short, it was the only option. I read it on the plane and then started in on the Alien Head scarf as soon as I could get yarn and needles. It took me ages, as I had to keep re-starting...

This is a picture of what I'm working on now, which I am knitting in Cascade yarns"fixation", which is a cotton-elastic mix. The yarn has a nice cushy, firm boucle
quality, when knit in rib, and I like the striated colourway, which does stop me from getting bored.
I drop lots of stitches using these 5 bamboo needles, and have added wedges of wine-cork to the ends to help stop this from happening, which it does, a bit.
I am trying to learn to knit well without looking at what I am doing and have taken up READING as I knit. this requires an active foot, to hold the page in place, or one of those plastic hair clips with teeth...
It sounds makeshift, but actually works pretty well, and as I've been ploughing through the novels lately, it allows me to kill too birds with one stone(though multi-tasking seems sort of antithetical to the lesuire activity aesthetic, doesen't it?).
Lately read and enjoyed: Ludmilla's Broken English and Cleaver.