Knitting content!
I have two main WIPs at the moment – one of which is having to take a bit of a back seat as I need to spin up some more yarn, and although my back is much better, I’m still taking it very easy. But it’s the really exciting one, so I’ll start with that one anyway:
(click to enbiggen and enjoy the slubby glory)
Cardigan – designed using a mixture of Ann Budd’s basic sweater pattern from The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns and the waist shaping from Knitting Daily. Since this is to be a fairly bulky cardigan I haven’t gone for completely figure hugging shaping (at least, I haven’t intended to – it’s not finished yet… ), so there should be about 1” +ve ease over the hips and bust and about 3” +ve ease round the waist. (The piece in the picture isn’t blocked, so it’s rolling like crazy and you can’t see the shaping.) I’m knitting it up with handspun Shetland from bluefaced (there is a problem with ordering stuff from the website, but if you email Andy he will get back to you.) Most of it is undyed, but I’m doing garter stitch edges using the fibre I dyed at Liz’s.
Secondly, partly because I need to get more yarn spun for the slubby cardigan (it’s designer slub – I’m loving it), partly because I have raging startitis, and partly because having bought all that yarn from Stash I need to use it. (Big confession – not only did I misremember when I posted before – I didn’t order 8 balls of the Alpaca Silk, I ordered 10, I also went back on the site and ordered more – 2 more balls of Cathay and 5 more of the Alpaca Silk. Well, it would be foolish to run out, wouldn’t it?) So I started Sylph. Having read around on Ravelry I saw that a number of people have made it using DB Cathay, and they had found that the twisted stitch pattern was almost invisible (possibly because of the multi-stranded structure of the yarn). I swatched, and not only discovered that I needed to go down a needle size, but decided that I could see the twisted pattern, and I rather liked it, so I was going to go ahead and use it. It wasn’t until I’d got further than this far:
that I realised just how much it was biassing. (But lookee – you can definitely see the twist pattern!) I ummed and ahhed for a bit, then decided that although it might block out, it would always bug me, and if it was always going to bug me, it was time to rip it out. So I did, and I’m now back to just an inch or so above the faggotting pattern. Sigh.
two comments:
sigh Ripping back is always so discouraging.Chris () (link) - 06 May '08 - 17:29
Eek, that cardigan is MOST impressive.Daisy () (link) - 06 May '08 - 22:49
