After learning my lesson with Aranmor I am now a dedicated swatcher. I hope so, anyway. I have purchased yarn & a pattern for a sweater (Henley T-shirt, by Knitting Pure & Simple), and since the pattern calls for it to be knit top down, in the round, I am also swatching top-down, in-the-round. For my swatch I chose a contrasting color of the same yarn, and am knitting a hat. So far I've ripped it back two or three times. Began again today.
The yarn is Classic Elite, Provence, 100% cotton. I cast on with 3.75mm clover dpns and after finishing the increase rounds switched to a lovely 29" 4.00mm Boye Balene II which I bought at Kanawha City Yarn Company specifically for this pattern.
The pattern calls for #5 and #8 needles, with a gauge of 18spi on the larger needles. So far it looks like I made a good call and am getting 18spi on the Boyes (US6). I'll decide what method of wash- and drying I'll be using after the swatch-hat is done.
This incarnation of swatch-hat was cast on as 7 stitches, increasing in the first & every other round to 63 sts. My increases I did as yos which I ktbl in the following round.
Since 63 is an odd number I may increase or decrease 1 st before beginning the ribbing (body of hat, in this incarnation, is stockinette), or --more likely-- use a K2P1 rib pattern.
All I know for sure so far is it's a pretty color and I'm impatient to be done with the swatch and on to the sweater.
Showing posts with label KCYC. Show all posts
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20 April 2008
27 March 2008
All those ends go faster in company...
The Fair Isle socks are done. Last night at KCYC I finished the toe on the 2nd one, and tonight at East Tenapa (sp?) Mexican restaurant in Milton WV (a Ravelry meetup) I finished weaving in all the ends, and even knat another inch on my pentathlon gansey sox.
The meetup was cool! I hope I get a chance to do that again. I know next Thursday I'll be on my way home for a three-day weekend, but maybe another time.
On a less happy note, my next door neighbor (at the apartment, not at home), Beth, told me tonight her place is infested with RATS! She said they are big sewer rats, she saw them coming out of the woods, and they ate her couch. I immediately put my alpaca yarn in the freezer (oh, did I mention? Last night at KCYC I bought eight balls of Frog Tree alpaca to make a scarf I saw in one of the magazines --Knitter's, I think-- that has stripes which do a cool, open twist at the ends. I'll find a picture and post it soon.) I should probably put the cotton I bought last week (for a gansey sweater, did I forget to mention that too? Six hanks of a lovely blue and one of deep green (for swatching), and a pattern, and a #6 circular) in the freezer too. Th'Mr strongly suggested I get some DCon, but I can't justify killing rats for being what they are meant to be. He answered, "They're not meant to be roommates..."
The meetup was cool! I hope I get a chance to do that again. I know next Thursday I'll be on my way home for a three-day weekend, but maybe another time.
On a less happy note, my next door neighbor (at the apartment, not at home), Beth, told me tonight her place is infested with RATS! She said they are big sewer rats, she saw them coming out of the woods, and they ate her couch. I immediately put my alpaca yarn in the freezer (oh, did I mention? Last night at KCYC I bought eight balls of Frog Tree alpaca to make a scarf I saw in one of the magazines --Knitter's, I think-- that has stripes which do a cool, open twist at the ends. I'll find a picture and post it soon.) I should probably put the cotton I bought last week (for a gansey sweater, did I forget to mention that too? Six hanks of a lovely blue and one of deep green (for swatching), and a pattern, and a #6 circular) in the freezer too. Th'Mr strongly suggested I get some DCon, but I can't justify killing rats for being what they are meant to be. He answered, "They're not meant to be roommates..."
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