I am very proud and excited to announce (hence the announcements camp song in the title) that one of my designs has been published in the latest Vogue Knitting Magazine, Fall 2009.

Here it is!

Pattern:     Vogue Knitting, Fall 2009 #27 Fair Isle Collar Jacket
Yarn:         Debbie Bliss Luxury Tweed Chunky 4(5,6)sks #14 yellow
                 Debbie Bliss Luxury Tweed Aran 3(4,4) sks #6 eggplant and 1 each of #11 green,
                 #21 magenta, #5 grape, #& natural
Needles:    US 10 1/2 (6.5 mm) 32" & 16" circular and US 8 (5.0 mm) 24" circular

I am currently in the process of knitting my own #27 as the one featured in the magazine now belongs to Vogue Knitting and gets to travel around in the Fall 2009 trunk show. Oh, the places it will go! As soon as Sarah brought the yarn into the shop, I picked the color I wanted for the main body of the sweater



and the colors for the collar. Of course, since then, I have gone through about 10 different color variations for the collar!

I also have helped several friends and customers at the shop pick out their colors and can't wait to share photos of all the jackets when they are finished. And yes, I am extremely flattered that all of these people want to knit my design.

Back to my jacket though, because really this all about me, right? My color is all picked out (blue of course), I complete the main body of the jacket (as shown in the picture above), change my mind about the colors for the collar again and finally ask Sarah to order more colors of the Aran, so I can have more choices than the 50 that are already at the shop (ok exaggeration). Now the jacket sits, waiting for the new colors to arrive, so I can be completely satisfied that the right choices have been made.

And then, the backordered colors of the chunky come in and in the mix is this color that is so tempting that I fell down on it right away. My knitting friends and I never say, "Hey, I bought some new yarn today and I just love it." Instead we say, "I had an accident at the shop today and fell down on some yarn and luckily was unharmed, because the yarn cushioned my fall." 

Here is the new color. Notice it is also a shade of blue. Shocker, huh!?



Hmmmm, what to do? Rip the first jacket and buy more skeins of that color, so I have enough to knit something else and then knit #27 with the new color that I just cannot live without?

or knit both of them, so that I have two #27 jackets?

What to do? What to do? Thoughts anyone?...

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