Started working on the Aran Skirt from Winter 05/06 Vogue knits.

Here is a picture on flickr.

I’m using some wonderful alpaca from the Woodstock Wool Company.

I’m using the Bare Alpaca in Chocolate. It is so wonderfully soft!

The pattern calls for size 6 needles, but the gauge is 26 st X 32 rows on a 4 X 4 inch swatch.  ( 6.5 st X 8rows PER INCH!)  I had to go down to size four needles!  Luckily, I had one pair I had inherited.  My Denise Knitting system only goes down to size 5.

I started casting on while watching the Bronco’s game on Sunday.  The game got so intense, that I couldn’t keep up with the gigantic cable chart anymore (132 st across!).   Hopefully I’ll get the hang of the pattern soon.  So far I only have about 3 inches on the far right triangle done.  The shaping is a sort of flared a-line skirt.  This project could take forever!

I really wanted to attempt to design a skirt, but this skirt would look so cool with cowboy boots, I couldn’t pass it up.

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