Gauge hell
At some point I’m going to be upgrading this blog to WordPress 1.5, but that requires concentration and re-working of the different stylesheets so that I can get my look back on here, and I’m just not that with it right now.
So my gauge woes with “Samantha” are far from over. I started knitting with the new yarn (Endless Summer “Lara Print” in Lavender Sachet from Elann.com), and it’s a beautiful, soft, smooth yarn. But apparently I’m knitting too big for the stitch gauge, which really shocks me. So I unravelled everything and started a swatch gauge with size 3 needles instead of size 4. Closer.
I was all set to start on those five rows again when I realized that the first four rows are supposed to be on needles a size smaller than the rest of the sweater. Well, screw that. I’ve had enough of fighting with this thing, and now I’m just going to knit it. I told Dell yesterday that I’ve reached the point where I am so mad at knitting that I wonder why I ever started it.
So I’ve started it all over again! Let me tell you, I have those first five rows of the pattern memorized, I’ve started them so many times. And it’s lovely, and I’m at a straight knitting section, which is nice and mindless. No pictures, because the little girl who this is for was just born yesterday and her mummy and daddy have the camera. :-)
That’s the knitting news around here. I’m still plugging away on Cozy, I’m thinking about unraveling Phillip’s socks and starting them over, and Thomas’s sweater is on hold because, well, to be honest … I got bored. Thus the “Samantha” endeavors. I’ve got such a short attention span!
