A bit of a Mosaic stitch obsession.

I have been knitting since I was 10 or 12 years old. I made my first sweater when I was 12. I still remember it. A variegated raspberry colour yarn. Probably Canadiana worsted. This would have been 1963 and there were no fabulous yarns that were available at that time. In fact, I would bet, there were no fabulous yarns period.

I accidentally knit two fronts for the same side. When my mom said I would have to ravel one back, I said "no way" and solved the problem by having one side "wrong" side out and the other one "right" side out. To balance that, I put one of the raglan sleeves in "wrong" side out as well.  Hmmmm, me thinks the lazy side of me - or the designer side of me - emerged in that sweater.

Too many sweaters later, I still love making them. I have a blue cupboard full and work hard to wear one every day. Unlike store-bought sweaters, I keep them forever. Occasionally I reclaim the yarn and make something else. I have a few sweaters that had a previous life.

So these days, I am doing more cowls and socks and fewer sweaters. And these days I find myself hopelessly in love with all things "Mosaic". I think I am late to this party, since there are 112 pages of results on Ravelry. I just think a wonderfully talented young designer made it extremely popular right now. Four cowls down - at least two more colour plans bagged and ready to get started.

More mosaic in this beautiful sweater. which was finally soaked and blocked this week. It is by the same designer who did The Shift.  Her name Andrea Mowry and the pattern is available here. If you go to that page, you will see that she has sold 998 patterns for this sweater. And the combinations are incredibly delicious. Seriously, pour a tea or coffee and take a peek.  Because you will also want to check out all her other patterns. Yikes!!!

Not quite off the needles yet are these "Ugly Duckling Socks". Pattern here. A different Mosaic, but Mosaic all the same. They are a Christmas gift for my son-in-law - his favourite colours. There will be at least one more pair of these.  A Christmas present for my husband, who requests a pair of new socks every year. As the pattern says, this is the perfect solution for an orphan ball of striping yarn that isn't quite as beautiful as you had hoped. Just put a solid with it and voila.

When these are done, I can move along to cowl number 5. No addiction here!!!!

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