Ice Cream and Sweaters

It was only yesterday that I noticed an ongoing trend of mine. I love Neapolitan ice cream. Everything about it I find soothing ~ hello? check out the logo. It was my favorite as a kid (I called it Napoleon ice cream for the longest time), and as an adult I usually pass it up for butter pecan, Chubby Hubby, or pomegranate ice, but I sometimes still pause and often buy Neapolitan. Its perfect lines and equal opportunity blocks of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla are a treat on every level - taste, aesthetic, and coolness.

That said, my new project is a sweater for myself. I'm winging this one, crafty folks. I'm taking what I know and applying it to a bottom up cardi with waist shaping and short row shaping for my boobage. More to come, but feast your eyes on this yarn. (Yes, this ice cream thing has a point.)

Campfire Neapolitan

I swatched and cast on for this project while camping at the beginning of the week. So, until blocked, this lovely lady (the sweater, not me...I took a shower) will smell like wood smoke. 

This yarn. Oh, this yarn. An online yarn-dyer friend of mine, Knitivity (www.knitivity.com) supplied this wonderful 75% washable wool / 25% nylon, hand-dyed beauty. I don't see this colorway on his list anymore, but he does have Hold The Vanilla which is the chocolate and strawberry version - also yummy! I've been wanting to do a sweater in sock yarn, so chose this from my stash. I also have a skein of his Wine Stain in sock weight. It's gorgeous!

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This sweater needs to be light yet warm, washable, and versatile. It's replacing my sad old favorite black sweater that really needs to be recycled into something not resembling a sweater. What self-respecting knitting instructor won't part with a raggedy, buttonless, patched and repatched mess of a store bought sweater? Well, I guess that would be me. I'm trying to give it up...really I am. 

xoxo, Knotty Melody