A good start

Here's my start of the back of the sweater. I'm using my new wooden KnitPicks Options Needles. The yarn is Elann Peruvian Highland Chunky.

It's posted in the Pattern Availability section above, but in case you haven't visited the blog in awhile and still subscribe to posts in a reader, I'm posting this bit of information I found in the latest edition of Yarn Market News.

Interweave Press, publishers of Knitscene magazine (the original source for the Central Park Hoodie pattern), have compiled a collection of 20 of the best patterns from the last five years of Knitscene, and the CPH is featured. This is wonderful news for knitters who have found it a challenge to locate the pattern in past issues. I have not reviewed the book yet to see if the corrections posted here have been incorporated, but I'm excited that the CPH is finding new life!

This could mean a rejuvenation for the KAL! Are you with me?

FINALLY!

I finally ordered the yarn to make this sweater! I've been in love with it since it first came out. I've been looking at all your beautiful finished sweaters. Nice Job!

I ordered Elann's Peruvian Highland Chunky. Can't wait for it to arrive!

Happy New Year!

Hello, fellow knitters, this is your Admin here. Hard to believe it is 2011 already.

Despite relatively low activity on the CPH KAL blog, we're still alive and kicking and have recently added two new members. I'll let them make the introductions themselves if they wish.

I just wanted to pop in and say to all of you who are still following, Happy New Year, and drop by sometime. This sweater continues to be popular, and we're always accepting new members.

Have Ravelry Name?

Hi, all!

If you have a Ravelry ID and would like to have it listed after your name in either of the KAL Members Lists, please send an email (JRBERRY63 at WOH dot RR dot COM) and tell me:

• Who you are on the list
• Your Ravelry ID

Thanks!
Jeanne (Admin)
aka KnittyBanter

My Hoodie

I finished my Hoodie and im just loving it......

CPH FO happy dance!

I finished my hoodie last night. I'm really pleased with how it turned out. Especially given the egregious error I made a while back. My left armhole was 10 rows deeper than my right armhole, but I didn't discover that until after I had joined the shoulders and knit the entire hood. Yikes. I had to cut the knitting, rip down 10 rows, and graft it all back together. And it worked.

Here's the end product!





I started this on September 16, and finished on October 28. That's pretty quick for a sweater for me. I used Louet Riverstone Worsted, six skeins.

Mods: short row shoulders and three needle bindoff to join them, and I continued the cable up the hood. I also ran a line of slip stitch crochet along the back neck to keep the fabric from stretching out (hat tip to the Yarn Harlot for that one!).

More gory details on my blog: http://pdxknitterati.com/2008/10/29/central-park-hoodie/

I love this sweater!