Here is the front of my Long Asymmetrical Cardigan, from Andean Inspired Knits by Helen Hamann:

My knitting photography skills need some work.  The wrinkles, I am embarassed to say, occurred post-blocking.  I left the sweater in a bag, and now it needs re-blocking. 

Back view:

This was a fun pattern to knit.  Each side is knit from the cuff up, then stitches are added on for the front and back, which are knit simultaneously.  Add the front shaping and you have a recipe for fun.  One side color changes in stripes, and the other side multicolor intarsia.  Then there is the [optional!] embroidered piece that is cross-stitched onto aida cloth before being sewn onto the front of the cardigan.  It was optional, sure, but I thought the sweater needed the structure of this piece across the front.  It also provides the third design element in terms of the colorwork.  I very much like the design of the panel.  Lookee:

What's not to love about that?  The hours of stitching through the aida cloth, perhaps?  But it was worth it to add that design, reminiscent of andean textiles, into the finished piece.  Add a fantastical button:

and you have a sweater.  A finished object:  knitted, pieced, faced, tacked, embroidered, embellished, washed, blocked.  But if you look more closely (which is hard to do because of fuzziness) at the bottom of the shortest cinnamon-colored stripe, against the shortest dark brown stripe -- right at the front-center of the sweater, you might see a little problem.  A dropped stitch.  Dropped.  Front-and-center, dropped.  I couldn't believe it. 

Why oh why did I leave this thing in the bag?  Probably because, just when I thought it was complete there is something to be mended.  And not only the dropped stitch.  There are places - many of them - where the color of the yarn tacking down the facing shows through the sweater.  Yes, again Up Front.  And Center.  

What did Brando say?  "The Horror . . . The Horror!"     

A peek at Lake Superior through the icy railing along the Lakewalk here in Duluth. 

On today's podcast, I talk about the Big Lake in A Bit of My Town.  It's a new segment.

Lookee:

This is a view of the entry point of the canal, from the vantage point of the Lakewalk.  The fuzzy shadow straight across is Superior, Wisonsin.  The frozen object in the foreground is a crib that washed up onto the lakeshore during a winter storm last year.  Lake Superior was calm on the day we walked along.  More about that on the podcast. 

Also on the podcast, my lack of sock knitting, and  a small sock-yarn dilemma.

Hope you like it.

It's a White Christmas here.

Episode 1 of Knitajourney Podcast is up.  The fine folks at Libsyn make it easy for a web-neophyte like me to go public. 

My husband and I walked along the Lakewalk (more about that in Episode 2) today.  Here's a sneek peek: 

 
It was a gorgeous day for walking along the lakefront.  I plan to record Episode 2 this weekend, to include a bit about the Big Lake. 

Here is where to find the podcast:  http://knitajourney.libsyn.com.  And so it begins . . .

Today I recorded Episode One of the Knitajourney Podcast.  I was nervous, but had a good time recording.  Topics today included an aran sweater saga, The Knit, and snowfrisbee. 

At the time I'm writing this, I still need to figure out the RSS feed for the podcast.