Watch This Swatch!

No pictures  of  the FO´s I´m afraid.

Note to self: next time you drag your seven-year-old son to a park specifically to photograph his newly 

finished Dragon Sweater – make sure that the camera-battery isn´t totally flat.

I just hope that Ludvig didn´t learn a whole new vocabulary...

And I´m still not altogether happy with that brown cardigan I was knitting in sock yarn. After I made the sleeves a bit bigger they ended up looking too bulky. Sigh.

I might have to unravel and reknit them again. But I´m saving that special treat for later. I don´t fancy having a nervous breakdown just before Christmas.

So no pictures of the brown cardi either.

But I do have this swatch to show you:

This is a pattern that was inspired by an ad in the paper – for tiles. Very expensive tiles.

Since I can´t afford such expensive tiles in my kitchen I decided to knit a sweater instead

that I can wear while I walk about in the kitchen. 

(How about that for an excuse to buy more yarn, eh? Impressed?)

I´m calling the pattern "Kakel Spektakel" (kakel is Swedish for tiles) for the time being.

I´m using the first sleeve as a swatch and this is my second attempt that I´m fairly happy with.

Though I have reknitted the last few rows at least ten times. I tried to add a little yellow, but didn´t think it looked that good. I´m still not sure I´ve got it right. But I´ll get there eventually. I hope.

P.S. Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome!

Or if you think this swatch is a complete failure – just send me the money to buy those tiles instead.

Comments

[Pinneguri]

Oh, beautiful, beautiful! How well the colours work together, and with that tiny bit of apple green with the red ... Do you mind if I just plain out steal your colours?!

[Rina]

Hello? It's perfect. Don't change a thing.

[Tuulia]

It looks really lovely! The green really pops up!

I love the idea of using tiles as inspiration - I want to knit something with yellows, blues and white, for a Mediterranean theme.

[Leslie]

Beautiful!

[Wendy]

I agree with the other commenters: it is beautiful!

[Maria]

Så himla läckert...gillar speciellt det mörkgröna partiet!

[Gunilla T]

Så snyggt! Du är fantastisk! Kommer ju att bli mycket finare och skönare framförallt än några kakelplattor.

[Marina]

It looks wonderful as it is!

[Katarina]

Love it! And I bet it looks even better as a knitted jumper than the original tiles.

[heidi]

instämmer med alla föregående inlägg!

du har verkligen lyckats kombinera färger på ett otroligt sätt. det skall bli jättespännnande att se hur det färdiga resultatet blir:)

[Anna]

Det är så vackert att jag får tårar i ögonvrån.