Interweave Summer

My evenings  (and days) have been occupied with other tasks lately and there has been little knitting time.  I did get a fair amount done on Thursday, while I was at knitting night, and I managed to squeeze in an hour yesterday as well.  No go today.  I had hoped to knit, or better yet, to knit and spend some time sewing up a sweater but got behind on my list of things to do and spent the evening  processing a large batch of ancho chile puree and using some of it to make a batch of chorizo as well.  

 While I was waiting for things to simmer and cool however, I did finally get around to looking at the new Interweave Knits, which arrived over a week ago and had basically been ignored until today.

It is an interesting enough issue, and there are several sweaters that are nice, but which are not quite catching my fancy.  I put them in the "lovely, but" category. At the moment I am not interested in them.  I am willing to admit however that if I see a fabulous version of one or another of them on Ravelry, I may change my mind.

 But what do I love?  Only two patterns speak to me.

The essential cardigan is classic and lovely and I like it all the more because of the off-center buttons.  The DK weight is nice.  I would have to lengthen it slightly, but that is not unusual, and otherwise I would probably do little to change this.  Of course I may change my mind about that completely when I actually get around to knitting it.

 The other sweater that caught my attention was the lace-saddle-tee but it is really hard for me to make up my mind about this because the photos don't really show the sweater and the way it fits the model very well.  There are great photos of the lovely lace detail on the sleeve, and the diagram looks promising, although the sleeve looks too short.   So it seems that this one too, is a lovely sweater, but not one that is calling me to drop everything else and begin knitting it right away.

After I looked at the diagram for this tee however, I also looked at the instructions to several patterns, some of which look much more intriguing in the instructions than they do in the photographs.   I'm not quite sure what I think about that, but I do think that I need to give this issue some more thought.

Comments

[Grace]

Those are the only patterns that speak to me, too.

[Gina]

A few of the summer patterns caught my eye as well, but I think it's prudent for me to focus on knitting from my existing pattern collection!

Hope you are well.

[materfamilias]

I'm also pretty ambivalent about this issue -- not surprising, as I don't often get pulled in by the summer patterns. I did like the cardigan you picked out and the Tee, but wish there was a clearer allover/front view. I don't have my copy handy right now but I know there was another very pretty, laceweight pullover, gossamer cables rather than Y/Overs, that interested me. Like you, though, there's nothing I feel I have to cast on for any time soon.