I was going to blog, but...
Sunday night I was going to blog about my progress on the Hot Lava Cardigan. Then I was hit with an attack of hives (out of nowhere) and freaked out. I went to bed with lots of antihistamine flowing through my veins.
Last night I was going to blog about said progress on said cardigan, but I got a few more hives and was also very tired by 10 p.m.
Tonight I was going to post pictures of said cardigan, seeing as though I am a) not full of itchy welts, and b) awake, but after reaching mid-back, I looked down at my work to discover that the second skein of Manos I wound was one with super-thin and super-thick places, plus a very slightly different shade of colors. Yes, I know, I should have knit from two balls at once, but that sounds like a recipe for "this knitting project sucks" to me. I decided to risk it, as my eyeball said that the dyes were similar enough (they are, really). But I never thought of the thick/thin business. Now either I have five skeins of thick/thin stuff and one skein of nicely thick-enough stuff, or the other way around, and either way, I want to rip out what I just knit. It would suck if there was that one patchy part amongst lush parts.
Matthew said that it looks good, but it's $85 worth of yarn so I want it to be PERFECT, dammit. I guess I shall rip out all the work I did during tonight's very riveting SVU episode.
The good news is this: I'm making the largest size (even larger than largest, since I apparently have long monkey arms*) and used one skein for just a bit over one sleeve. Now, the pattern calls for six skeins of Manos for the two largest sizes. I can probably do it in four, which means I'll have two skeins to do something else with and I won't have to live with the idea that I made an $85 sweater.
The other good news is this: my hives seem to have been caused neither by chocolate nor wool. Yes, there was a possibilty of allergy to either, but so far I've been hive-free and have consumed both items. (I did not eat the wool.) I believe I would rather be allergic to chocolate. Cheesecake can be at least as good as chocolate, but cotton will never be as good as wool. Of course, I'm left wondering what caused that little outbreak; let's hope it was just stress.
*Seriously, do I have long monkey arms? Why is it that I have to extend every single sleeve by at least three inches (this time it was four, and it still wasn't quite long enough; at least, it wasn't knuckle-length) beyond what the pattern calls for? Am I an apewoman? Do aliens come and stretch my limbs as I sleep? And why can I still not reach things on topmost shelves if this is the case? I want a refund.
Tipper @ 8:07 PM * link
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