Thanks, EZ

I needed a little kick in the right direction to really get knitting again, and it came in the form of freezing weather + a trip back to my parents' house, where I found my copy of Knitting Without Tears. I love Elizabeth Zimmermann's way of writing and her philosophy that you don't need to follow the rules, or be particularly precise, in order to create successful knits.

The above is the start of a bottom-up sweater which i'm going to knit in the round with sharp rounds of decreasing in the yoke. I'm then going to try my first ever steeked cardigan by - yikes! - cutting down the front and picking up a rib border. I'm already terrified of the idea of cutting my knitting; it might well remain a pullover.

Here's the fair-isle chart I designed for in-between the yoke decreases. I'm going to knit the pattern in some sparkly snowy white Rowan Soft Lux from my stash. (The body yarn is Sirdar Click, frogged from the start of my Gentle Fawn cardi which I decided would be a failure.)