Our Lake Home Interior

These photos show the interior of our lake home in northern Minnesota on Maple Lake near Mentor. We spend time there in summer and winter. it is a great retreat! The designs are Zapotec, Navaho, Pendleton, and Denali.

Kitty Cardi

On the needles, another cardigan knitted of Caron Simply Soft and Caron Paints yarn on size 7 Addi Turbo needles. This shows one of the front pieces.

I call the design Kitty Cardi for obvious reasons.

Sanibel Swirls Cardigan

The Sanibel Island beach that inspired the sweater.

I knitted this Fair Isle style stranded cardigan in pieces to make it easier to handle while traveling. I started it on January 3rd when we left for our two month trip to Sanibel Island.

Some of the charts were from various knitting sources. I documented the details on Ravelry.com.

The yarn is Caron Simply Soft, knitted on size 7 Addi Turbo circulars. The sweater is my design and knitted for myself.

Red Ribby Ridgey Pullover Sweater

This sweater was knitted of Caron Simply Soft on circular Addi Turbo needles, size 8.

The design is my own and I knitted it for myself. It was completed in December 2010.

Dolman Tweed One-Piece Sweater

I altered this sweater, too. It is knitted in one piece starting at the bottom, up over the top and down the other side. Originally, it was short sleeved. After trying to wear it, I decided that it would be more useful with long sleeves, so I picked up stitches and extended the sleeves to full length. It is an oversize sweater, very comfortable.

The yarn is Bernat Tweedsome in Mahogany Tweed. There was no pattern, it was designed from a calculation worksheet in Easy Knitting, KP Books, p. 218.

Sunset Ridge Cardigan

I shortened this sweater, too, and I shortened the sleeves. I love the yarn and the color, even the pattern, but, the knit stretches so much that the gauge was off. I had to make it much smaller. It seems to fit me, now.

The yarn is Bernat Softee Chunky in Carnival.

Peacock Spots Cardigan

This cardigan is my own design, with the addition of a stranded/intarsia yoke that used a modification of Kaffe Fassett's chart called "Peacock Spots". The sweater was originally 4 1/2 inches longer. I shortened it this week and added a new bottom ribbing. It fits and looks much better, now. The yarn is a combination of left-over Caron Simply Soft and some unlabeled bargain yarn from the Bemidji Woolen Mill. The buttons are special. My daughter gave them to me as a gift. They are reconstructed "Pilgrim" buttons that originated in the Middle Ages.