Friday, June 10, 2005
w00t!
My one skein wonder is finished! It would've been done several days ago - I realized Sunday night as I was knitting the second sleeve that one of the shoulder increases had mysteriously shifted over by a stitch, and that that would bother me, and that I should rip back... so I did. Definitely the right way to go, although it was as heartbreaking as ever to find myself buried in a pile of crinkly once-knitted yarn. Just gotta weave my ends and then I'll try to get FO pictures, probably just in the bathroom since it's too freaking HOT to even think of wearing wool outside right now.
I'm still on the fence about the colors in the yarn, but I think in the end (after all but having my head beaten in by Jon and Adrienne, since I've refused to shut up about it) I'm alright with it - it's a small garment, and the colors are springy ones that look good on me, and it means I have slightly less impossible double-strand mohair boucle to haunt me whenever I go scrounging for yarn. There's an interesting '70s tweedy thing that happens in the seed stitch in the sleeves. Normally I hate seed stitch - it's not rewarding given the amount of time the yarn forwards/backs take up - but I might actually consider it as a basis for whatever I do with the rest of the yarn (which I'd guess is 300-400 yards?).
Meanwhile, my daunting pile of unwashed scarves still remains...
Lauren posted at 0.31 on 06.10.05
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