Planning a 1960s sweater

It feels like all I've been doing is planning my next projects without doing actual work on any of said projects. Maybe I should make a promise that the next thing I post will be a finished project... Hahahahaha! But honestly, sometimes I think the funnest thing about knitting or sewing is the planning rather than the actually sewing or knitting. Call me crazy.

I've been wanting to knit a sweater from a vintage pattern for awhile. I even made a post awhile back of my top 5 vintage patterns to knit. Of course the pattern I'm going to knit didn't make that list.

The pattern I plan to use is called 'Rosalie' from the Patons Knitting Book No. 665. My plan is to eliminate the color work and knit it in a dark purple using Knit Picks Stroll. I know, I know, me opting to not do color work? Crazy, right? The color pattern just doesn't really impress me. What drew me to it was the ribbing at the yoke and neckline. I'm not sure how it will look in a single color. But we'll see.

Over half a year ago, my sister and I scored a few vintage dresses at WildWoman's Vintage Clothing, a cute little vintage shop in Sparta, WI. One of the dresses I absolutely fell in love with is a cute little, sleeveless, wool, tweed, purple dress. For months now, I've been talking about knitting some kind of sweater to go under it. My first thoughts were to follow the series on Fitting a 40s pullover that Tasha at By Gum By Golly put together a few years back. But I decided that a mock turtle neck would be the best way to go. To be honest, I'll probably still be referring to those posts quite a bit while planning this.

I know a couple weeks ago I mentioned a sweater I was working on that I hoped would be done by now. Well, surprise, surprise I'm still working on. But I hope to be able to show it off next week or the week after that... Or some week at some point in time, because lets be honest, with this project under way, I might not have the desire to knit on anything else.

If you want to see my progress on my vintage sweater or even possibly my other WIP sweater follow me on Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest for latest updates.