the state of my knitting
Posted on July 13th, 2006 at 11:46 amWell my kit for the Knit Sock Kit Swap is done and ready to go to the post office today.
As for Jamie’s sweater, well, when Shelly and I met Kay for some knitting last night, this is how the sweater looked:
And after a bit of reluctant gauge checking, and sheepish grinning, the sweater became this:
My gauge when I originally swatched for this was the 24 st./4 in. that the pattern called for. Sometime after I began the actual sweater, it became about 25 st./3 in. So we got to enjoy a little bit of sweater ripping, re-swatching, and I will start again sometime this week on 3.25mm needles. Yippee!
July 13th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
Aside from the massive frog that resulted from the swatch, you’re doing a damn good job with that fair isle crap! I’m still afraid and might never attempt it. Bergock.
July 13th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
That is a wonderful kit for your sock kit/knit/swap partner!
Jamie’s little sweater was beautiful, even though it turned out to be off gauge a bit. Well, the frogging was quite therapeutic for me…and I do wish we had a video camera to film it. I would have loved to have seen it played back in reverse.
I’m really glad you’ll get to do the sweater on size 3 needles now. Jamie will just love it when you have it completed!
Shelly
July 14th, 2006 at 8:01 am
judging from the sample you frogged, it’s going to be beautiful! Wonder how much farther than this you will be by next Thursday’s knitting!