Spring is in the air (and in the mail)

After a cold miserable Easter (perfectly spent having leisurely meals with friends and knitting on the sofa) it seems like spring is finally here. And to complement the weather on Monday the spring edition of Interweave Knits has finally landed in my mailbox.

I subscribed to IK over the winter and I was looking forward to my first issue. Which never arrived. IK extended my subscription by an issue and I ended up buying the magazine from Amazon US, as this was still cheaper than ordering it from an online store in the UK. Sometimes Amazon US stuff takes ages to get here, but this time it was quite fast (just over one working week). I quite like the printed silk cardigan and the auburn camp shirt. There is a good likelihood I will knit printed silk. I am waiting to see a few finished examples of the camp shirt on ravelry before I commit to knitting another garment on tiny needles. Oh and I might knit the leggings from skinny knits as a pair of knee-high socks. People on ravelry were complaining about the sizing, but how different from normal sock sizing can it be? Just increase and decrease like in the Nancy Bush patterns or in Knitting Without tears.

Which reminds me of my vintage me-shaped summer top project. It is going well. I put the stitches on some scrap yarn (ok, the end of a ball of yarn from another project that is currently not in use) and tried it on. It fits. I am happy. However, I did decide to rip a few rows back, since I wasn't happy with the pattern / position of a contrast colour stripe I decided to add. But as I promised myself that I will not be afraid of ripping back in order to get a great looking top, I ripped. It shouldn't take me long at all to get to the waist shaping. There the fun starts - I can see more ripping in the future.

Mental note to self: Add a lifeline of scrap yarn before I start to decrease for the waist!