You can't imagine how nice it felt to finally get some time to knit and take pictures. Please remember the part about me being a beginning knitter, and well, a not so talented photographer either. I am pretty good at drinking wine though. Although, I don't drink it on a Saturday morning very often. Swatching for a sweater caused this to happen.
Tina Dina has been swatched.
Four times.
Sizes 5, 4, 3 and 2.
Now, you know how it goes that the place you find a lost thing is always the last place you look?
Size 2. The book suggests size 5, and size 3 for the ribbing. This was caused, I think, by a slight difference in yarn size that the LYS told me would result in a more dense fabric. The guage required is 22 stitches per 4". The yarn says 5 sts/in. on size 6. Because of this, LYS said to make sure and swatch.
Yeah. I see why now.
In four inches:
Size 5 was 18 sts. 4 was 20 sts. 3 was 19.5 (Yeah, what the heck, right?) and 2 was 23. I'm somewhat smaller than the size I'm knitting, so I'm really hoping here.
Guess what though. I have two size 2 circs. So I can knit the front and the back at the same time, and every couple of inches, seam them and if it doesn't fit around, I can start again.
Sally Melville said to always wash my swatches. And I already told you about my rule following problem. So I did the first last night and patiently waited for it to dry overnight. Life is short, so my hairdryer and a glass of wine helped me throught the three swatches I did this morning.
That is Moto being neglected while eating his cheerios. He hates it when I knit.
The Moto-photo (ha!) has the truest color (on my monitor) of this fabulous purple cotton fleece. (Brown Sheep calls it "Berry" but it wouldn't be a very good tribute to my girlhood if I called it anything but Purple.) This is why I posted such a blurry photo, for the color of it. Because it would be too good a life to get good color and non-blurriness, or I guess, clarity would be a better word, in the same photograph.
And the winner! It is much smaller because, well, it is the freaking fourth swatch.
I liked this so I included it. Have a great weekend!
3 comments:
We are living on opposite ends of the pole. I had to call the post on my recent sweater "reckless" because I broke all the rules; however, swatching and washing will pay off in the end : )
Pretty color.
Kathy
I sure hope so. The wine tasted sweet, so that has redeemed the experience.
Aaaah yes. Wine and knitting. Always a good combo.
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