Where is this year going!?  It somehow seems apropos that I’m finishing up my Charlie Brown sweater during the month of October, because the first thing I think of when I think of the Peanuts is: “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!”

I’m pretty proud of this particular project, because it marks my first real sweater I’ve ever knit (even if it is only 6-year-old size).  I’ve completed a couple Baby Surprise Jackets, but I don’t consider those to be “real” sweaters because they’re a flat piece of knitting with clever increases and decreases that just so happens to fold-up into a sweater.

This… is a REAL sweater.  And It’s almost done!

I can’t claim credit for the idea of this sweater, however.  My friend Pam asked me one day about figuring out how to make a Charlie Brown sweater as a gift.  I’m by no means a designer, but I thought it couldn’t really be that difficult to take a basic plain sweater pattern and add a fair isle zig-zag wrapping around the body.

And sure enough, it wasn’t!  The sweater is knitted in the round, bottom-up.  I’ve finished the entire body of the sweater and now I’m working on the first sleeve.  Once the sleeves are done, the last step will be to pick up around the neckline and knit a ribbed edge.

And, as a little teaser, here’s the next bit I’m working on…

An entrelac scarf!

I’m basing it on this pattern, though I have some modifications in mind.  The yarn is Knit One, Crochet Too Paint Box in the Caribbean colorway.

This is really, really fun to knit.  I’d attempted entrelac once in the past by casting on the Garterlac Dish Cloth, and I just wound up frustrated and confused.  It’s no reflection on the pattern of course.  I think I just wasn’t ready to attempt something like entrelac at that time.  Now it has finally “clicked” and I’m enjoying the heck out of it.  I believe we’ll be doing this as a class at the knit shop, so hopefully others will have as much fun with it as I am.