Introduced to Elizabeth Zimmerman by a dear friend many years ago, I have long admired and delighted in reading her books and watching her charming videos. A purchase of numerous skeins of wool at a garage sale gave me the perfect opportunity to “experiment” with knitting a sweater via Elizabeth’s Percentage System. I had nothing to lose! To start with, I had a totally different plan for this sweater. I had intended to continue using the blue in the yoke pattern. When it was apparent that I was running out of blue, I went back to my bag of wool and improvised. I had plenty of white and many shades of gray, so the Medusa yoke pattern from Knitting Workshop looked like the ticket. The yarn is Briggs & Little woolen worsted, knit on size 8 (US) circular needles. This sweater fits me perfectly. Elizabeth is right—you measure a favorite sweater and start calculating from there.
Wow! That Medusa is beautiful! (The baby set is nice too.) I love the colors. Now I want to make one too. Well done you.
ReplyDeletePlease tell blogless Kim that her Medusa sweater is GORGEOUS and has inspired me to pick up my EZ book and figure out my % and start knitting :)
ReplyDeleteTell bloggless Kim to get a blog ;) I'd love to see some of her other projects. Those are both lovely!
ReplyDeleteThe Medusa pattern is one of my favorites. I'm so happy to see it!
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Blogless Kim - Amazing!
ReplyDeleteAnd Kathy...thank you for taking the time to share it with us.
Oh my gosh that Medusa sweater is COOL! Tell your buddy to get a blog and post pictures! And let us know!
ReplyDeletei am in love with the medusa. and it is nice to see something new from ms zimmermann. it is great fun to see the ganomies, the february sweaters, the big amount of bsjs and fun to knit it. but this one is a gem.
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