Samus in purple

One of my current projects is Samus, a pattern by Brynne Sutton that I found on knitty.com, one of my favorite sites.

The celtic cable is knitted first, and yay for Brynne for providing both a cable map and a line-by-line stitch instruction. The cable is the bottom of the sweater jacket, and I'll need to knit more of this cable for the bottom of the sleeves; this is the body of the sweater. (You're seeing the cable at the top of the photo because the contrast is better this way.)

Brynne knitted her sweater in orange, which I loved, but this purple called to me, so voila.

This is my first experience with a circular needle, and it's been...okay. The "wow" in the flexible connector made for some weird twists the first several times around, but the connector's relaxing now. I love that the body of the sweater gets stitched as a whole--the fewer seams the better--so the circular needle's the way to go, but it's not my favorite tool thus far.

Updates on purple Samus' progress as it happens.

Link to knitty at right, or right to the pattern here.