although it’s not even thanksgiving anymore, happy turkey day to those who celebrate it, and a belated wish it is.
i didn’t get to knit much today, but i guess that much is a bit of a relative term. after some tea and general ‘f this’ attitudes, i decided to cast on for the Skating Sweater from big city knits. google that if you must, i’m far, far too lazy to post a link or picture. it’s frickin one in the morning. anyway, i began to knit the body (i’m typically a size small or medium depending who’s asking, but i cast on for the large because i knew my gauge was off and if i knit on bigger needles for the smaller size like intended, i’d end up with lace) and HATED it. with every particle of my knitterly being, i thought the sweater looked like hell in a hairball. so, naturally, i kept knitting. and then, when i was about halfway up the first section of the pattern (which brings me to about halfway up halfway up the sweater) i looked at the sad lump of green acrylic/wool and decided, maybe i should try this on. so i put the stitches on some waste yarn, tied a knot so they wouldnt slide, and wrestled the beast over my head.
it was glorious.
i’m really glad i knit the large, because the medium just wouldn’t have cut it using the wool-ease on 17s for me. i don’t know exactly what gauge i’m knitting at right now, didn’t bother measuring, but i do know for darn sure that it isn’t the right one, but the sweater fits. it looked good, well, the tube of tummy that i had done. and i was so, so ready for more. i’ll show my progress once it’s not obscenely late andi’m not about to suffer a turkey hangover. after knitting through a couple scrabble games and juggling needles with eating several clementines (it’s that time of year!!) i got up to where i’m ready to divide for the front and back/shape armholes, and i couldn’t be more excited to finish. but i wish i had thought about the fact that now i need dpn’s in size 17 to do the sleeves, mainly because i don’t have the patience to learn magic loop or 2circs just to do these sleeves. then again, maybe i should. we’ll see when i finish the body, how i feel. but the sweater feels lovely and warm, and the pattern truly does open up gorgeously, but i’m scared to block. i test-blocked a teeny little swatch just by soaking and pinning, and i’m afraid to wash the sweater. it gets really fuzzy, and that troubles me about the wool-ease. i’ll probably just wear it and see if it self-blocks to a degree, though i doubt blocking is even necessary because the whole thing has to be stretched into anyway. oh boy. i really hope it doesn’t get funky or anything, because i am so dreading washing, even hand-washing, despite the fact that the yarn claims to be machine washable. with this sweater, not on my life.
long story short, thanksgiving has been wonderful, i was hoping to be done with the sweater by friday night (HAHA!), but i’m terribly excited. i can’t wait for the FO!!!
-A
