note to self
May 9th, 2006
Next time you knit up a sweater, especially one in which you spent a hundred dollars on the yarn, knit up a friggen gauge swatch! Ugh. I suppose this is the sweater in which I learn the important lesson on gauge. Clearly, the thing is too big. It is the size of a football player. So I will fold her up and place her in the closet until fall comes when I will frog and re-knit. Since I had such good luck with my Chai Pullover being knit as a seamless sweater, I am thinking that I will rework this one as a seamless sweater. For one thing, the stripes will match with the back and sides, so that’s good. I just need to figure out how to do it. The sweater that I am knitting with the yarn that I got from Artfibers is a seamless cardi. So I think I will knit that one first, and then maybe try something with some of that Cotton Ease that I have in my stash. But I’m officially done with wool (unless it’s for socks, lace, or felting) until fall.
Speaking of felted, I knitted up a felted bowl! I used the pattern from the book “One Skein.” Originally I was going to knit it up for my stepmother but I finished and the moment I took it out of the washer I decided to give it to a friend of mine at work because her birthday is today. As you can see, I put a couple of candles in there and some travel size bottles of lotions from Bath and Body Works. I hope she likes it! I enjoyed making it.
Here is a clearer picture of it. I used the rest of that beautiful blue yarn that I used form my MIL’s clutch and some of the pink Knitpicks Sierra yarn to make it stripey. I really love how it turned out and have already knitted another one. I just haven’t felted it yet because my washer died yesterday.
I worked a little bit on the Slytherin Scarf last week. But, as you can probably tell, I got bored with it and wandered on to other things. I will try to get back to it this week. I really want to get that thing done!
Entry Filed under: Butterfly
6 Comments
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Jennifer | May 9th, 2006 at 10:45 am
Very cute bowl. Don’t feel too bad about the sweater mishap. We all have the occasional gauge issue. (And please don’t mention the “shawl” which we use for a blanket. Seriously. Don’t mention it.)
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Melissa | May 9th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
It happens to us all! I’ve learned my lesson and now I am lovingly known as the “gauge nazi” at our local SnB!
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Beth | May 9th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Yeah, what they said.
I made this gorgeous cabled sweater… two or three sizes too big. I haven’t been able to bring myself to frog it, though I did make a new one the right size.
The bowl is really cute.
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heather | May 10th, 2006 at 4:52 am
I think we’ve all done that. but….when you decide to return it from exile (mine is still shoved in a bag in the closet) it’ll be what you want. The colors look fabulous…and it’ll be resurrected in glory I am sure!
:)
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Karma | May 10th, 2006 at 6:49 am
Oh, honey. That must’ve been disappointing!
Fortunately, you know what to do when you’re ready to remake Butterfly and it will look amazing the second time around. Of all the color choices you could have made, yours is my favorite.
Cute felted bowl, too!
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trek | May 25th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
It looks like you are getting a fair bit of use out of the One Skein book. Is it really worth the purchase price??
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