Pardon, Please, the Paucity of Posts
Posted on Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 15:35Sorry. Didn’t intend to leave you with that rant.
The two weeks up to Saturday were knitting Hades. Swatch; measure gauge; knit; get different, usually larger gauge; frog; swatch again; ad nauseam. Everything I tried was too big, too expensive or just too hard. I gave up and read instead a couple of times.
[I made the mistake of picking up Janet Evanovich's Eleven on Top at 10:15pm last Tuesday. I finished it at 1:30am.]
Thursday night, I decided that I needed something quick and easy to get myself back on track. Something small, like something for a baby, then discovered the only suitably colored yarn in my stash was either the now horrid pink Takhi cotton or highly flammable (rayon). I hit the LYS on my way home on Friday and did this Saturday:
This is for the baby girl of my coworker, who is leaving work to be a full-time mom, the same baby girl that was supposed to get the interminable baby blanket.
The pattern is the tam from The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns by Ann Budd (Interweave Press). The yarn is Karabella Aurora 8 (100% merino), which I could knit forever. I used less than one ball in total, on #6 Inox dpn’s.
I know, a hand-washable for a baby is sort of cruel, but it’s so cute and soft. She can always have it dry-cleaned.
Yes, Jon, I did swatch in the round. And for once my swatch and finished product have the same gauge.
I finally found a yarn I like for one of the whippet coats (two whippets, two coats): Schachenmayr Nomotta Modern Art, 50% merino/50% acrylic. It machine washes.
It’s fairly forgiving in cables. I got it at elann.com, so it’s not too expensive, though a 50g ball doesn’t go very far.
See, more cables.
You might ask why I’m doing cables for a dog. Why not? Have to practice on something.