Knitting Club

Does anyone else find it difficult to acknowledge that a projection is simply not running out for some reason?  I’m trying very difficult to get better, but I must concede that I feel guilty when I lay something down for good.  So what I said Sunday, about how I was passing to have it done the Silken Scabbard?  Yeah, forget that.  I just really hate the way the form is written, I didn’t like the yarn I was using, and knitting an entire tunic from DK weight yarn in one piece just makes me look like I’m not getting anywhere.

Guilt free, right?  Maybe not, but I will try to proceed on!  I started a new sweater instead, as the yarn for my baby cables sweater is not here yet (I chose the brown, thanks for your votes!  This is Polly, from Thrown Together by Kim Hargreaves (I swear, I should get paid for knitting so many of her designs!)

Unnecessary belting aside, it’s a cute basic sweater, and it’s going to knit up super fast.  Gauge is difficult to quantify because the textured stitch is so stretchy.  Mine measures small, but stretches easily, and this is superwash yarn (Elann superwash chunky) so I anticipate some stretching, especially from a heavy sweater.  Kim seems to use this stitch a lot (it was featured heavily in Honey, and the Skye wrap in her new book (the one I’m planning on making, now possibly from the called for yarn) also uses it.  I can see why she’s a huge fan - the resulting material is stretchy, and there are no purl rows.

I’m also making great advance on the “Simple yet effective” shawl, although I do take this to say: Dear Mr. Noro - what’s up with the one random bright colour in the heart of every nice colorway?

I wish the brilliant blue, but I am far less enamoured of that minty green.  It would appear that although I love greens, I really hate anything minty… reminds me of the color half the walls in my family were before we painted them.  I’m kind of want I had bought a different colorway, but I will withhold judgment for awhile… maybe it will get better, and perhaps I’m being picky.

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