The saga of this yarn continues, but I’m getting closer people! I love working out sizing issues, but these are the most problems I’ve dealt with all at once. Finished Sizes are calculated with the center cable band overlapping. I’m planning to insert a zipper, so I have to account for that. Yarn Bloom is […]
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The Best-Laid Plans
I swatched and washed the Kathmandu yesterday. It took several tries before I got the gauge right. This stuff blooms *a lot*. The recommended needles are 5 mm / US 8. After washing the swatch on those needles, I got 3.75 stitches per inch. Uhm, not even close to the 4.5 listed on the ball […]
Arwen: The Yarn
I changed my mind on the yarn I’m using for Arwen. The Aurora 8 was stuck in customs so I went down to Rosie’s yesterday where Carol helped me pick out a great replacement — Queensland Collection Kathmandu Aran. Replacement is really the wrong word, because I’m *much* happier with this yarn than my original […]
Eye Candy Friday: Fall Garden
My Knitting Life List
I always think about things in terms of goals (do more of such-and-such, spend less money on this-or-that). I even do it with my knitting (just look at all my goals posts). While visiting with Christy this weekend, Michelle mentioned all the life lists she’s been reading lately. So it got me to thinking, what […]
That’s What I’m Talkin About
the old sock in the diagonal rib with a few extra sts. I think there were 60 sts in the sock ( the stitch pattern made for a smaller sock). The pooling was just about as much as I could handle. But this? This is behaving like Koigu, with its short color changes. I’m not […]