note to self
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!
6 comments May 9th, 2006