Jofrog is Knitfrog!

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September 22 2005

This Sweater Does Not Want To Be Made

Let me tell you a tale about a wonderful new yarn called Atacama. It's beautiful, it's hand painted, it's alpaca, it's afordable. In the Ella Rae Book 1 there is a pattern for this great yarn. I'm attempting to make this sweater. It's not happening any time soon.

I started knitting on this sweater Saturday morning. I had a conversation with someone about how it is really a DK weight yarn, although it's being knit loosly at worsted gauge for the pattern. Some time after this conversation I started knitting loosly. ...too loosly.

Fast forward to Sunday at Knitsmiths. Despite the fact that I worked Saturday, went out Saturday night, and worked Sunday, I'm already up to the armholes on the first piece. I look at it, hmmm, those stitches look really loose. Oh yes, my gauge is far off, so far off, and so different from the correct gauge at the beginning of the sweater that I decide it all has to go. Because I'm knitting alternatively with two balls of yarn, to prevent pooling and to blend hand painted differences, this will not be easy.

I set it aside to be ripped out with the help of my rip-happy husband. I start again with another two skeins. I knit Sunday night and Monday night on it, I'm past the waist decreases but ten stitches short. I count again, ten stitches short. I count a third time, how can this be? I must have cast on ten too few stitches.

Photographic evidence of all of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday's knitting. All to be ripped out and started again. Le sigh. Good news is I was getting gauge on the second start, lets hope I do on the third as well.

posted by jofrog16 at September 22, 2005 04:49 | link | comments (4)