Final Knitting of 2010

I finished this sweet, little, tweedy sweater for Little A just before the end of 2010.  

I love it.  It's different and it's tweed and it's interesting and it's super soft and it was fun to knit.  

Of course it doesn't actually fit Alex yet.  It should fit him next fall or maybe later this spring if he keeps growing like a weed.

Pattern: Langstroth by Elizabeth Green Musselman
Yarn: Knit Picks City Tweed HW
Colorway: Marsh
Needles: US #5 & #7
Size: 26" Chest
Modifications: None 

The designer included this interesting note:

I am a historian of science, so I name some of my designs for scientific figures from the past. In 1853, Rev. Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth published The Hive and the Honey Bee, which for the first time described many of the beekeeping techniques that are still used today. Langstroth invented the concept of “bee space,” which means leaving about 1 cm (the size of a bee) between each frame in a hive box. This encourages bees to build honeycombs only on the removable frames, instead of on the hive box itself. This made it possible for beekeepers to handle the frames and extract honey as they had never been able to do before. 

 

Comments

[melanie]

gorgeous! i'm always amazed at how fast you complete things :)

[sue]

What a wonderful sweater!