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New project: the fatly cabled sweater (#14) in the fall 2005 Vogue Knitting.
Progress after 1/2 hour of knitting on Sunday.
Progress as of last night.
- Yes, I know, chunky girls + chunky knits = chunky chunk, but I think it's cute. And, hell, there's no hiding the fact that I'm not a size four. I needed to knit something fast and wooly, and I'm digging this. So there.
- Gauge strikes again! I'm using the called-for size 11 needles, but my gauge is drastically different. We're talking 13 stitches to FIVE inches, not four. It works out well, though. Before I had to choose between a 44 inch and a 52 inch bust - the former too small, the latter too large. Now, I can knit the smallest size with this gauge and be spot-on at about 49 inches. Perfect. How Wool-Ease Thick and Quick can be knit at a tighter gauge, I have no idea. I tried size 10's, which offered a slight improvement, but the fabric went from squooshy and soft to rigid and, well, gross.
- They put a nice, big mistake in the pattern, too, one I didn't notice right away (and, so, my first cable row is not right, and at first it didn't bug me, but now it does, now that I'm at the armholes). Dear Vogue Knitting, Left cable crosses mean you hold the stitches in FRONT, not the back.
- Speaking of armholes... So I just got there, right? They kindly wrote the pattern as "decrease one stitch on each side of each row." Um, okay. So I did a decrease in pattern (so, purl stitches) one stitch in. I read ahead to find that later on, in the back-of-neck-area section, they give explicit decreasing instructions of k2, k2tog...skp, k2. Gee, thanks. Why not just do that before?
New Yarn!
Monsters cannot resist the tasty yarn!
- Future victim #1 is a skein of Malabrigo worsted in "Bobby Blue," destined to become a hat to accompany my winter-but-not-the-really-cold-part-of-winter coat. I got this for $3, thanks to Yarnzilla only having one of the Summer Tweed colors with which I needed to exchange another color. I'm sure I can scrape by with the yarn I have, so I picked this stuff out. It's nice to pet.
- Future victim #2 is one skein of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Black Purl/Pearl/Perl/Whatever. And, yes, one skein will make a pair of socks, disbelieving yarn store lady. If you wouldn't have spent so much time trying to convince me to buy another skein and let me get a word in edgewise, I could've told you that I just made a sock out of the same yarn (different color) and it's a BIG sock (taller than usual) and I have about a third of a skein left. So I think I can manage some little ankle socks, yes?
(I'm weird, maybe, but I hate it when employees anywhere try to be helpful. I mean, I want you to be nice and around if I need to ask you a question, but I don't like unsolicited advice.)
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