Name

Location

Which Triangle Pattern, Yarn, Starting Date, Etc.

Anne Whitlock

East Moline, Illinois

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Undecided

Starting: Sept. 1 (After Stitches!)

brenda cheek

cullman,alabama

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: don't know yet.but i want all the triangle tango patterns.

Starting: asap

Carol Hurt

St. Louis, Missouri USA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Main color is Noro Silk Garden (col 37) dark pink, purple, green, aqua. Also using Trendsetter Dune (col 86) and dark pink Cash Iroha, Berroco Cotton Twist in purple, several others out of stash. I also have some Noro Small Tubu for the finished I-Cord trim.

I just finished a TT in Noro Kureyon and it turned out too small for me as well as too HOT ;) Now that I've learned my lesson, the next one will be lighter weight and a multiple of 9 stitches.

Starting: Sept 1 - after Stitches MW

Here are photos of Carol's first Triangle Tango, the one that will go to her daughter.

Front View

Back View

And here are photos of Carol's second Triangle Tango!

Carol notes: “These buttons are just lying there because I don't like them and will find more suitable buttons ;) I added triangles to each side seam for additional length. I also added additional triangles to lengthen the sleeves.”

And a shoulder detail photo (This is a photo of the front of the sweater, but Carol writes, “the back looks the exact same way. 1/2 of the shoulder triangle attaches to the front and one attaches to the back.”

And here's a detail photo of the edging . Carol single crocheted a row of single crochet around the entire edge, including the little neck flap. Then she did a second row of crab stitch (reverse) single crochet.

(Detail photos will open in pop-up windows.)

Chris Wallace

San Jose, CA, USA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Mostly Kureyon, Silk Garden, Cash Iroha, Manos de Uruguay, and Noro i-cord. I don't have buttons or all the yarn I need. In fact I probably will have enough yarn to make one for a DIL.

Starting: As soon as I finish a few other projects and get all the yarn I need.

Diana McDonald

Vermilion, Ohio USA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Diana Wiener

Needham, MA 02494

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Terra Firma

Yarn: Yarn that I picked up in Copenhagen, Pioneer - a combination of 70% wool, 5% silk, 20% Alpaca and 5% of something called Bomuld. This yarn colorway is “Wolf”and is aptly named as the color resembles the coloring of a wolf's pelt. I am also using a pale (pearl) gray and a turquoise color as well.

Starting: 8/18/03

Edith Sitman

West Orange, NJ

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Mellow Yellow Cardigan

Yarn: Kureyon #89, Silk Garden #7, Cash Iroha #21, Cash Iroha #7, Cash Iroha #24 (Magentas, Blues, and Purples)

Starting: September 3

It only took Edith about two weeks to finish her sweater, and she says she's gotten addicted to triangles! Edith writes, “I started with the TT Mellow Yellow Cardigan and I quite easily ran wild and crazy having fun with it.... My dear friend has named my sweater 1the amuck sweater.' I added triangle gussets, short rows, and triangle borders. I also changed the sleeves by adding various size triangles and added facings.

Here are photos of Edith's Triangle Tango!

Front View

Back View

Detail photos (will open in pop-up windows)

• Sleeve Detail
• Back Gusset Detail

Elizabeth Rice

Santa Rosa CA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Mellow Yellow Cardigan

Yarn: Euro Mexican Wave Aran peagreen colorway with possible additions of one other colorway. I have had this yarn for awhile. It was a disappointment. It isn't as soft and nice as the regular Mexican Wave. I wish they would make Mexican Wave in wool. I started it before I got the pattern based on the online conversations. I had to do a lot of ripping! It was way too big because I was using an eight base triangle.

Starting: started in July

Elize Nigrini

Potchefstroom, South Africa

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: pure wool, mohair.

Starting: 31/7/2004 can't wait (started 13 August 2004)

Ewa Shephard

United Kingdom

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Not sure yet

Starting: January 2005

Fae Hamilton

Redwood City, CA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Mambo Sunset

Yarn: Noro Kureyon, plus some extras from my stash. I'm using multiples of 8 instead of 6. From a swatch that I did, I calculated that multiples of 6 would make a total circumference of about 40”, and I'm aiming for 50”.

Starting: Started in July.

Rev Florence Schnurman

Long Island, New York

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Purple Rain

Yarn: Not Known Yet, probably some sort of heavyweight yarn.

Starting: soon

Fran Tanner

Fresno, CA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Vest

Yarn: Some Silk Garden or Kruyeon along with some other stuff I have in my stash...

Starting: This one will come after Summer Braids and Cuff-to-Cuff!

Gill Burdis

Billingham, England

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Mellow Yellow Cardigan

Yarn: Kureyon, Silk Garden and some handspun.

Starting: As soon as the pattern arrives from Pat - it's winging its way over the Atlantic as we type.

Glenna Stansifer

Independence, CA, USA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Vest

Yarn: Handspun samples of commercially dyed fibers - I've got lots of these, and will pick those that go together. I was fortunate to take the TT class with Colleen in Seattle in April (2003), and I used my handspun there. She was skeptical of my color choices (well, this is the lady that says chartreuse is her “neutral”), but did admit that what I made “went together” and looked good.

I also took the San Diego Sweater class from her, and am gathering cottons/blends in “sixties” colors (lime, orange, lemon, azalea, turquoise & violet), because I'm a San Diego native who left there in '66 to head north to the desert, and those colors make me think of San Diego.

Starting: If I can ever get finished with the Great Destashing project, and add it to the pile of SOs that has become mountainous!

Progress Report: After filling in the form for the TT KAL, I finally got started - with different yarn, natch! I had these 10 skeins of Noro Cotton Kureyon in a wonderful colorway that I'd been saving for "something." Decided the TT Vest was that something, so I got busy last Monday and have gotten as far as the picture of the almost-two modules (see below). I took the picture as it is, because I realized that the pattern would have to be changed a bit in order to fit me (don't they always?).

The 11 modules specified in Colleen's original directions just weren't going to make it in my yarn and gauge (I'm using size 8 needles with the Cotton Kureyon). Upon analyzing the pattern, I saw that after finishing Triangle #6, it's essentially the same module and the addition of larger triangles only makes it a larger module. After seeing that, it was a breeze to keep adding triangles until I'd reached a comfortable 1/4 measurement for myself. I only had to make one more triangle and I was there.

Glenna sent photos of the new yarn she's working with, and some of her triangles. The first photo shows the yarn she decided on and the beginnings of an 11-triangle module. (This is the one she realized wasn't going to work.)

This photo is a 12-triangle module.

Helena McGevna

Burke, VA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Kureyon

Starting: January 1, 2004

Janice Mosley

Goodview, VA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: One blue and one green Manos, one red/orange varigated Manos, one Noro Kureyon, one Noro Iro, and one green Baci from S. Charles.

Starting: I started in March!

Joan Lang (joan in St. Louis)

St. Louis, MO 63130

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Noro Kureyon

Starting: mid August

Judy Bowles

Mililani, Hawaii USA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Silk Garden with other embellishments: Aura, metallic, sequins, beads.

(This is my second!)

Starting: Aug 6

Judy Edmonds

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Terra Firma

Yarn: I've decided to do this one because we are about to enter spring down under, though I have a jacket pattern as well and will probably do that later, and I'm already gathering yarn for that one.

This short-sleeved top will be made out of an oddball collection of Rowan DK Handknit Cotton that I have left over from making numerous sweaters/cardigans for my kids when they were toddlers - they both enjoyed knitted cotton and I made many Debbie Bliss and other Rowan things for them. I have a large box left over from these days! I'm making it in summery shades of pinks, blues, greens and yellows. I will probably modify and extend the pattern as I go along as I suspect it might be a bit small as is - the DK cotton will knit up at a tighter gauge plus I am probably bigger than it is intended for! But I plan to knit up the modules as specified (though using a much larger number of colours) and then measure and decide where to add extra triangles - that bit will be my personal touch to the pattern, which I find creatively inspiring!!

In the meantime I am gathering together autumn yarns for the Triangle Tango that has lots of buttons on it, which I will make in a few months time.

Starting: I've been mulling over it for a week since the pattern arrived, now I have gathered the yarns together and will start in the next few days - it's August 23rd now so definitely by the end of August.

Julie Lynch

Wallkill, NY

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Noro Kureyon #91 from YarnXpress, Colinette Mercury in Lapis & Venezia

Starting: started 8/16

Julie Yeager

Stormville, NY, USA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Mambo Sunset

Yarn: I have made a few attempts. The first challenge is that the pattern is for a size medium, with no indication of finished chest size or length. So we plunge in. I started with Lion Homespun on size 10 1/2 needles using a 6 stitch start triangle. I was achieving a width of 14” for one panel which would have been 56 for chest measurement - I am looking for about 52 - 54 but I didn't like the color combo so I put that attempt aside.

Next I gathered up a bunch of odds and ends from my stash in yellow and gold colors - cotton/rayon boucles, cotton worsted, wools, ribbon, and one very fuzzy mohair. I completed the whole back and half the front but I am not happy with the drape. Used an 8 stitch start triangle on size 8 needles but some of my yarns were too thin for size 8's. On the completed back, with ribbing (this is the pullover style) I got a 26” width and about a 24” length so hope this is helpful to those wondering about length.

My third attempt was with Noro Kureyon (do you know this means crayon in Japanese?) I bought one bag (10 skeins) in color 91, (grays, blues, a little wine and lavender) and planned to mix it with some Patons Classic wool in stash - heather gray and burgundy. After the first panel I didn't like how the two types of yarns were clashing. So (to make a long story longer) now my plan is to use my 10 skeins of Kureyon and fashion a triangle vest, fudging from the pictures and my own invention. I am trying needle size 6 cause that is what Colleen suggests for the medium size in the instructions for Mambo Sunset and I am thinking a dense warm vest.

I am starting now with 8 stitches but don't know yet if that will work. I am going to cut out cardboard equilateral triangles and try to puzzle together something. I am thinking a vest now because I want the yarn to all be the same - the triangle construction and color changes in the Kureyon should be enough wildness for my style - I think I have a better chance of actually wearing the garment if the wildness is toned down, but that's just me. Having alot of fun with this pattern.

Starting: started in July 2003

Kathy Coleman

Fruitland, Idaho

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Kitty Dodd

Floyds Knobs, IN (Yes, it's a real place)

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Noro Kureyon, Noro Silk Garden, Recycled Silk, Stash and some handspun

Starting: 8/10/03

Krista Gaines

Kentucky

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Vest

Yarn: I am using Kureyon(75?) in autumn colors plus a mix from my stash incuding a handdyed, handspun cashmere in similar golds, greens and browns, with a bit of orange thrown in for spice.

I have also started the Chevron Pullover pattern; I fell in love with it and couldn't resist. I am using much more subdued colors for me, a darkest brown near the bottom and for the wrist area, then graduating the chevron-stripes in CherryTree Hill Potluck Worsted in earthtones (darker) and watercolors (lighter) up to the neckline. I am a former-ample having just lost 90 pounds over the past 15 months and for once am going to knit something to show it off!

Starting:

Laurie Drew

Washougal, WA US

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Mellow Yellow Cardigan

Yarn: I have to go pick it out. I know I could have gotten it online but I want to try something a little different (of course!). I want something to wear to work with black slacks. I've been envisioning a module project done in champagnes and sands. Something neutral in color but really letting the texture be featured. So I am going to look at boucles, silks, ribbons, etc. I already have some champagne ribbon that is heavenly. It will be heavily featured. This might end up being kind of fancy. That is OK. I never knit anything for myself!

Starting: November (after bro's wedding)

Leslie

Cartersville GA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Noro wool and wool/silk blend in as many gorgeous colors as I can get away with using in one sweater!

Starting: Tonight!! August 8

Linda “K”

Seattle, WA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Mambo Sunset

Yarn: My own handspun. Going to try to do a very subtle group of triangles so there are not a lot of bold color bits hitting the eye - think that might be better on a larger frame.

Starting: 08/15/03

Margaret H. Velard

New York, NY

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Noro Kureyon, Noro Shinano (I think), Noro Big Tubu, Manos, some leftover alpaca, and who knows what else?

Starting: already started

WendyE asked on the list for photographs of the shoulder area lying flat, and Margaret took these of the front left side of her first TT. Margaret wrote that her first sweater is “yet to be finished out of boredom and the starting of the second TT in much more 'me' colors!”

Overview of Triangle Tango Shoulders:

Detail of front left shoulder (tag says "Front Left Side"):

Another Shoulder Detail:

Margaret also writes, “I did learn, the hard way, that my fabric on 9s is PERFECT for the size that I want on the TT - too bad I did a whole one on 8s! Just another reason to go out and buy more yarn, no?

Micayla Lee

Burlington, WA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Color me... Wooly Worsted and K1C2 Peruvian wool.

Starting: ASAP

Michele Kesler

Rutherford, NC

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: 12 different colorways of Noro Kureyon that I've had collected for a while (stash yarn!).

Starting: started in Jan. 2003

Mickey Moore

Pensacola,Florida

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Noro Silk Garden #6 and #47 (brown, orange, gold, green and black) and Cash Iroha in solid brown, burgundy, green and black.....already have had to start frog twice, but thanks to the Archives, and everyones'input, I think I am on the right track this time.

Starting: Already started

Mimi Forbes

Walpole, MA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Silk Garden, Cash Iroha

Starting: Any day now

Mona Phaff

Boston, MA; USA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: I haven't decided yet!

Starting: As soon as I find yarn

Nancy Griffin

Holland, Michigan

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: I did buy the Koreyon Noro from Yarn Express for this project, but then "ran" into a bundle of Lorna's Laces, a sampler of all their yarns in a colorway called, "mixed berries" while doing some stash re-organization and I think this would be a better choise. So many decisions, so little time!

Starting: September 1, after Michigan Fiber Fest

Nancy Zazza

Bellingham, MA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Mellow Yellow Cardigan

Yarn: Some commercial & handspun, handdyed using natural materials (plants, bugs, etc.) See my ofoto pictures of the process (this requires a free sign-up).

Starting: 3d wk. Sept @UnionFair, ME

paige

bountiful, utah

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Mellow Yellow Cardigan

Yarn: i dont know yet!!! i guess when i get the pattern i'll get a feeling for what i want!

Starting: after i recieve the pattern and then after payday so i can afford the yarn

Pat Deane

Rochester, New York, USA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: 3 colors of Kureyon, 2 colors Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride, and 1 I can't remember what!

Starting: August 2nd

Pat Kirtland

Virginia

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Vest

Yarn: Noro Silk Garden

Pat has already finished her vest! Here is a photo with lister Fae Hamilton modeling. I'm impressed!

Pat has put more information along with more photos on her project page at her Yarn Barn website. Pat came up with several great ideas for making the vest larger and longer. Do check out her notes!

penny halsall

Yorkshire, England

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: collinette, 'tagliatelli,' in shades of pink, red and multi

Starting: today! (15 December 2003)

Renay Smorgan

New York

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Mambo Sunset

Yarn: Everything! Wool, angora, mohair, chenille, velvet, acrylic, eyelash... you get the idea. I have altered the pattern a bit, to make it longer, with a straight hem (no ribbing for me).

Starting: almost finished

Renay is almost finished, and here are photos to prove it!

Full View

Detail View

Renay's notes: “This is my version of Triangle Mambo Sunset. I say my version, because I have made a few umm adjustments. I decided to go crazy (more than usual) with my stash (and some new yarn). As you can see in photo, instead of knitting only in Noro, I used everything... Angora, mohair, velvet, wool, acrylic, rayon, chenille, eyelashy stuff, and of course, some Noro.

The sweater is done in 4 panels plus the sleeves. Each of my panels measures about 10 inches. The center seam has not been sewn up. I am not 40 inches. I originally tried to make 2 separate side panels, but ran into problems at the underarm, so now I am going to make a front and back center panel, each about 7 inches wide. I also lengthened the piece by adding two large triangles to each panel. I will probably add a third large triangle, and leave the edge zig-zag style, with single crochet edge.

Oh, and the paw in the photo? that is my pekingese ‘helping’ me.

Hopefully I will finish the center panels, sew it together, block it and take a photo of me wearing it, sometime in the next few weeks.”

rosie sykes

Cambridge, England

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Whatever grabs me when I next venture into stash. I've only just signed up to Ample Knitters (thanks to Lorna Campbell for directing me here) but already have the pattern; I fell in love with it whilst visiting San Diego for a conference and was told that it was by a local designer, so what better souvenir? 

Starting: sometime in February 2004

Sandra Cohen

Seaford, New York

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: Not sure

Starting: winter 2003

Sandy

Wilkes-Barre, PA

Which Triangle?: Unspecified Triangle Tango

Yarn: I'm not sure yet.

Starting: After I finish moving.

sandy schiavi

ky

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: manos

Starting: soon (submitted October, 2006)

Sue Schwartz

Huntington Beach, CA

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Mambo Sunset

Yarn: Kureyon!

Starting: already started!

Susan in DC/MD

Silver Spring,Maryland

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: I am using one colorway of Kureyon to keep it united -- #88, which truly are autumn colors. If I don't have enough I will improvise! (or order more). I am worried about the length, and am thinking of “framing” the bottom with a solid color garter stitch border with mitres at any point or corner.

I finished my fist panel and was not happy with it, so I frogged it after I completed the second panel -- I really like the way the Kureyon forms different colored triangles, but the transitions are subtler and in the big triangles it forms wide stripes. Using just Kureyon makes it pretty mindless knitting, which is good for carting around.

Amazingly, I found rounded triangle shaped buttons 3,000 miles away from home (and yarn) in the exact colors in soft stripes. Perfect.

I advise knitters not to try and weave in ends for 1st 3 triangles, as that is what made panel #1 lumpy.

Starting: Already completed one panel.

Suzanne Witthoft

Austin TX

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: I have raided my stash and decided to start the KAL with Classic Elite waterspun in grape and chartreuse. I needed to get the third color so I went to the LYS and finished buying the yarn for my TT. I am so pleased with the colors! A friend and I went and spent at least an hour, we walked around with a basket and threw in any color we thought might go with my base waterspun colors/ We must have had thirty skeins in that basket. We went into the back of the yarn store and dumped them all on a big table the owner has there and arranged them until we had a combo we liked. WHAT FUN!!

I had intended just to select a third color but it seems I will be making mine of about 12 different yarns. I chose:

• Berrocco "Quest" in"pewter"
• Gedifra "Scarlet" in an olive green to violet colorway
• Colinette "Isis" in cinnamon
• Bouton D'Or "opale insage/deep violet and mocha (this is a cool yarn BTW it is a rick rack wrapped in a black nylon casing)
• Berroco "Zen" in a mocha color
• Filatura "Tokyo" in a pale chartreuse
• Classic Elite "Lush" (my favorite yarn) in a celery

And from "stash"

• The Waterspun
• some wensleydale
• a hand-dyed variegated
• a hand-dyed solid
• and several alpaca colors!

WHEW! I hope it turns out great!

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, Suzanne is off to a great start!

Starting: when the pattern arrives!

WendyE Gorlick

Tampa, FL

Which Triangle?: Triangle Tango Autumn Cardigan

Yarn: I am using a combination of 'cheap and cheerful' solid and variegated acrylic worsted weight yarns by Red Heart...as I consider this a practice piece.

I found that knitting the four basic modules for the body went quite fast, was very enjoyable and was relatively 'easy' once one got the first few triangles done.

I inadvertently and mistakenly reversed the K2tog and the SSK sides after the first three triangles. Doing the decreases on the opposite side of the triangle from where they were supposed to appear. This caused the happy accident of making it extremely easy to pick up stitches down the now SSK'd side. It also made it very obvious which side to pick those stitches up from and gave that edge a pattern. I decide to continue doing it this way as I had been really uneasy about all the picking up I was facing...this error turned "picking up" into something much more manageable for me.

It remains to be seen whether reversing the decreases proves to be a mistake or a help to the overall pattern.It seems to have produced very 'regular' shaped triangles (all the sides seem relatively even in length) when I think that perhaps the sides are not supposed to be even...for better shaping?

Now that I have the modules finished I am perplexed over the "joining" directions for the front and back sides and am temporarily stalled until my email appears on the AK list and I get a few helpful hints.

I look foward to trying this pattern in some 'better'and more interesting yarns in the future, assuming I do manage to figure out how to get the modules put together and the sleeves on and turned into an FO!

Starting: I did start around Aug 12th

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