WIPW: We Have a Sleeve
After swatching a few times I finally got something that would make me a fabric with a similar gague to that of the pattern. On size 5s.
My first two swatches on the recommended size 7 and size 8 were less then half a stitch different from each other before blocking. As I was feeling like a good knitter I blocked them and the swatches were then the same size. Fast forward a few days and a new swatch and victory!
Its a little smaller than the pattern specs, but as I want my sweater a little smaller than the size I’m making this should work out perfectly. So last night while watching Chopped on the Food Network (anyone surprised?) I cast on the first sleeve.
And I had the beginnings of a cuff. Getting to sleep has been something of a crap shoot the last few weeks, so before I wandered off to bed I completed the cuff and started working my first stripe.
They are 15 row stripes which seems high enough that I won’t be driven insane by multiple color changes, and that I will be cutting the yarn at the end of every repeat, because I know myself, and traveling threads inside my sleeves, with the way I get caught on things would be a bad idea. I’m using the stationary jogless stripes instructions from Tech Knitting because I broke one of the rules of project knitting. I did not read the very next page, where the designer provides instructions for jogless stripes. until after I had done my first one. Sigh. I also have exactly three size 5 needles, and they are plastic, so the second sleeve will be interesting if I don’t get more needles soon. I may own some size five wooden dpns, maybe. Who knows where they are. Though that may be an excuse to buy these but with my ability to lose dpns like no one’s business do I really want to get the nice ones?
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