i’m about to get wayne brady a-la chappelle’s show on someone right about now.
i bought a bunch of wool ease yarn in cilantro (such a gorgeous color, seriously) so i could try either the twinkle hoodie or the skating sweater from twinkle’s big city knits. of course, i have size 11, 17, and 19 needles. i am not getting gauge, and i guess it would be a good idea to get 13s or 15s and keep trying but i’m slightly more than annoyed, because i get the correct number of stitches with the bigger (17s, 19s) needles, but the stitches are open. OPEN. are you kidding me?! i wonder if many of you other knitters are finding this to happen, the openness of the yarn rather than having a nice fluffy cloud of wool (ahem wool blend) filling each stitch. i’m dying, and trawling madly through blogland to see how other people made it work, for i am at wits end. and if i buy size 13s or 15s and i get gorgeous little stitches, i will be a mite upset at the waste of time i had today. and also, i’m really concerned about the ease….wenlan says that her yarn will stretch a lot and all those tiny measurements will bloom, but i definitely do not feel like that kind of stretch is happening with the wool ease. (too much acrylic, i imagine).
anyone battled the wool ease monster? tips and tricks or soothing words to calm my forthcoming bout of insanity?
-A
