I saw this book at work today. It looks good, but I think all the patterns have been published before. I mean, the cover is Butterfly for pete’s sake! River is in there too, and quite a few others I recognized. Pictures are here.

I love the hooded shrug and the blue chevron lace sweater.

I find it interesting that the book uses the same pictures as the Rowan magazines, and yet the book isn’t endorsed by Rowan. Or should I say, it isn’t a Rowan publication like say, Denim People. All the ones I recognized as Rowan patterns gave Rowan yarn as the suggested yarn. I can’t remember if all the patterns did though.

Plodding away on my bubbly jacket, the ribbing took forever, but looks nice and even. The pattern says to do it on a needle a size lower, but I’m using US 5s for the body, and that’s as low as my Denise set goes. In looking for a smaller needle size, I found that the only needles I had that were smaller were sock needles. I ended up starting on 2.5mm DPNs. Rubber band on the end of each one, and a bulldog clip for when I put them down, so the stitches didn’t pop off the overloaded needles.

I’ve done the first bit of bubble pattern, and then found a mistake. boo. I found where I need to put in the extra stitch, I’m still not sure how I lost one though.