I was knitting this all evening, up to and including conking out at about 11:30. It's all I can do to resist knitting it RIGHT NOW.I've known about two-ended knitting for awhile, you know, that old tale about husband and wife sitting opposite eachother, knitting a sweater in the round and their work kind of swirls around each other's. It's in some book about Scandinavian knitting, I swear, not just a kooky dream. I even tried to rope my guy into it, but not even the '76 lineup of the Philadelphia Fliers could threaten him to knit. But anyway, I think it was the last Interweave Knits that had a section about 2-ended knitting in the round for socks. And it just occurred to me how neat it would be for a sweater! A circular-yoke, scrap-busting sweater! I just cast on 100 sts (which, at 4 sts to the inch, is a very convenient number for raglans and any other boat-neck-ish sweater I make), do a bit of ribbing, then knit 4 equal sections in 4 different yarns. Since a raglan increases 8 times every other round, that's the same as 4 times every round, and since I have 4 distinct sections of the knitting, I just increase at a random place in each yarn section. Easy peasy!
And here are the other yarns that will get incorporated:
So exciting! Aah!
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