So proud ...

Many weeks ago I wrote about a sweater I started designing before I began the testing for Tettegouche. And, as Tettegouche is done testing and released! I've gone back to the sweater idea and I have a real proud.

I started with this sketch and these buttons.

And then I created the cakes of my handspun cormo.

Here's the proud: I started a swatch! I did a picot edge, some stockingette, the flower lace stitch and finished with a picot edge.

Now I can measure my square, that is 32 stitches across and 50 rows high, and get accurate counts for how many stitches I should cast on for my seamless cardigan! Oh my gosh, I'm pleased as punch.

Be excellent to each other.

 

Rethinking my position on gauge

I often don't do gauge in my knitting patterns. Shawls rarely require gauge and the sock pattern I wrote ended being very stretchy so it could accommodate many sizes ( I think, I've never been told otherwise).

Every knitter comes to term with gauge, and sometimes I utterly fail at getting correct gauge - or even doing a swatch before starting the project. Recently I began the carousel socks on knitty.com. I did the entire calf of the sock before I tried it on.

It wouldn't pass over my heel. Gargh! I didn't do a gauge swatch, obviously.

So, the creative hat came out ... I thought a bit, asked some knitter friends ... And received the marvelous suggestion to turn these slightly wonky sock into mittens or fingerless mitts!

So I left 1 inch unattached when you would normally do the heel, for the thumb, and them knit to the end of my fingertips.

Now I can synch the end of that together and create mittens instead.

Of course I need some thumbs ... And to finish the other mitten. But I shall now I have mittens to replace the first pair I ever made years ago.

So, thanks Rebecca from MInnesota knitters guild! Great idea, and they are fabulous mittens.

Be excellent to each other!