Don’t you just love the word turquoise? It’s such a foreign sounding word- and I just looked it up in Wikipedia and found out it’s a French word. Probably used because the stone was traded in Turkish bazaars and that’s where the French came across it. Anyway, I digress. I just love the color of deep turquoise as in the sweater below:
Sorry about the weird green shirt underneath it. Didn’t think about that before I took the pics. Ah well. You might recognize this yarn from my Monday morning still life post.
It’s a sweater that has two purposes. The first is that I just desperately need a sweater and it’s damn cold! It’s knitting up very fast on size 5 needles (which would probably be 7s to everyone else as I knit so loosely.)
The second purpose is to be a pattern for my top down sweater class at Yarntopia. I’ll have to make up a different sample though because I want to wear this sweater and it’s not made from yarn in Dona’s store. The pattern is very simple and can be embellished miriad ways. Here’s a detail of the cable that runs down the shoulders to the wrists. I love how the ribbed cable lies so flat.
And here’s a sundrenched picture that’s a bit closer to the real colour.
Hope your day is sundrenched too!
Lovely! It looks very comfortable and warm.