Fusion. What Next?
Finished the Reynold's "Fusion" pullover last night, and am mightily happy with it:
Not as quick a project as one might think, because of having to wrassle three to five balls of mohair every row, but still, not so tedious. And the sweater's soft and light and lovely, and will be great for knocking around in. I might wear it for Christmas, whilst setting the house on fire with the Dickensian pudding.
So then I was done with that, last night, and I needed to start another project, one which will get me through the holidays and into the next semester, and though I've got "Margaret Tudor" on the needles, it's fussy, and I can't happily knit on it during meetings, on account of having to follow the chart so closely.
Also, I'd been seduced by the softness of that cashmere, so I swatched for that pullover.
Yes, well. Even on US#0 needles, I was getting 8 stitches to the inch rather than 11. And I don't own any smaller needles. And it was 10:00 PM, and Pittsburgh Knit and Bead was closed. (I may never achieve 11 stitches to the inch in this lifetime, actually; the entire project may need to be rethought.)
So I went back upstairs and dragged down the yarn for "Queen Anne's Lace." Yep. Good choice. I do love a Fair Isle, and I haven't had one in a while. But. When I bought the yarn for that project, I'd bought Jamieson's "Shetland Spindrift" from The Yarn Barn, the original yarns having been discontinued. And I hadn't put my conversion chart in the bag. And I couldn't figure out from the original color names what the proper conversions were. (Quick! What's the difference between "Crowberry" and "Loganberry"?) And the conversion chart's in my sewing room. And the sewing room's full of unwrapped presents, and not a thing can be reached at all, period.
Went back upstairs, beginning to be a bit testy, and dragged down the yarn for "Jane Seymour." But that's not started, either, because after I'd wound one ball of yarn, I still needed to wind another in order to swatch in pattern, and it was getting late by that time, and besides, that's not what I really wanted to work on, and I went to bed.
So. It's a new day. I'm going to wrap all those presents. I'm going to find my conversion chart. I'm going to swatch for "Queen Anne's Lace." Later in the week, I'm taking it on the plane, as the circular needles should be less distressing to security officials, who are supposed to be letting knitting needles go by, but might get antsy at any moment on account of the high security alert and it being the holidays and all.
That's the plan. Update later.
Not as quick a project as one might think, because of having to wrassle three to five balls of mohair every row, but still, not so tedious. And the sweater's soft and light and lovely, and will be great for knocking around in. I might wear it for Christmas, whilst setting the house on fire with the Dickensian pudding.
So then I was done with that, last night, and I needed to start another project, one which will get me through the holidays and into the next semester, and though I've got "Margaret Tudor" on the needles, it's fussy, and I can't happily knit on it during meetings, on account of having to follow the chart so closely.
Also, I'd been seduced by the softness of that cashmere, so I swatched for that pullover.
Yes, well. Even on US#0 needles, I was getting 8 stitches to the inch rather than 11. And I don't own any smaller needles. And it was 10:00 PM, and Pittsburgh Knit and Bead was closed. (I may never achieve 11 stitches to the inch in this lifetime, actually; the entire project may need to be rethought.)
So I went back upstairs and dragged down the yarn for "Queen Anne's Lace." Yep. Good choice. I do love a Fair Isle, and I haven't had one in a while. But. When I bought the yarn for that project, I'd bought Jamieson's "Shetland Spindrift" from The Yarn Barn, the original yarns having been discontinued. And I hadn't put my conversion chart in the bag. And I couldn't figure out from the original color names what the proper conversions were. (Quick! What's the difference between "Crowberry" and "Loganberry"?) And the conversion chart's in my sewing room. And the sewing room's full of unwrapped presents, and not a thing can be reached at all, period.
Went back upstairs, beginning to be a bit testy, and dragged down the yarn for "Jane Seymour." But that's not started, either, because after I'd wound one ball of yarn, I still needed to wind another in order to swatch in pattern, and it was getting late by that time, and besides, that's not what I really wanted to work on, and I went to bed.
So. It's a new day. I'm going to wrap all those presents. I'm going to find my conversion chart. I'm going to swatch for "Queen Anne's Lace." Later in the week, I'm taking it on the plane, as the circular needles should be less distressing to security officials, who are supposed to be letting knitting needles go by, but might get antsy at any moment on account of the high security alert and it being the holidays and all.
That's the plan. Update later.
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