The Rational Seamstress

 As mentioned in my last post, there have been two themes in my knitting recently: babies and Weekend Knitting . I have now made four patterns from Weekend Knitting ; now, I think, I'm qualified to write a preliminary review. I have an issue with cookbooks and knitting books. I love to read them, but I find I rarely use them to their full potential. I own several cookbooks, and have cooked through none of them.  (For The Joy of Cooking , I think I can be excused given the sheer volume of recipes, but my neglect of some of my other cookbooks is absolutely shameful.) I don't own as many knitting books, but I don't really use many of the ones I do own except my Knitter's Almanac by Elizabeth Zimmermann. There are a couple of forces at play here. The first is that, while I cook myself dinner several times a week, I don't make myself a new knitting project that often. When I knit for myself, I already know what sort of socks I like and don't need a pattern, and when

The computer is fixed, and now I can deal with the backlog of chores that are so much more difficult on a phone!   First off, an update on the Baby Sweater of Doom: As you can see, the left sleeve was sewn on inside out. The yarn is KnitPicks Shine Sport in Green Apple. The color is much brighter than it appears on the website; it really is almost the color of a granny smith. In the photo above, the sweater is very washed-out; the green embroidery floss is a much truer representation of the sweater's actual color. This is my third project from Weekend Knitting , and, so far, I've had trouble following all of the patterns. (I did make a fourth project while the sweater was sitting in purgatory, waiting for my anger to cool, but it deserves its own post.) I like the idea behind the book, but I've been disappointed in the pattern instructions. More on that later. Over last weekend, I made myself sit down, rip out the sleeve, and sew it back on, correctly. Here it is, with but