I haven't posted for a while, but that doesn't mean I haven't been knitting or thinking about knitting - I just haven't had much time for writing.
I still can't get over my rookie gauge mistake on the radian yoke pullover. I'm a better knitter than that. ugh. It makes me nuts, because there have been numerous times that I would have loved to wear that these past few weeks. OK, I know, I just have to let it go and count what I have learned from the experience. Easier said than done.
Now I have other garments to worry about size with. I have been working on a cardigan knit-along with my friend, M for quite a while. We started about a year ago. It's M's first sweater. I started this project long before I really started thinking about fit. The largest size in the pattern is 48" - but because of the shape and styling of it, it says it will fit a large range of sizes. I usually make a size 52. Okay, so I'm starting out 4 inches too small - not a good thing. I finished the back and fronts and clipped them together to try it on. It's not blocked yet, so it's hard to tell how long it is going to be - but it certainly isn't wide enough to fit around me. Let me correct that, it fits around me at the bottom, but because of the deep V to the fronts (they are only 6 inches wide at the shoulder), the fronts don't even come close to covering the girls. All is not lost - there is a pretty deep edging that you pick up along the edges of the fronts. I can always make it wider - but then will I have enough yarn? M. and I ordered the yarn from KnitPicks - so they still have the color, but we bought it a year and a half ago. It will be a miracle if it's the same dye lot. So rather than work on that sweater and worry about having enough yarn, I decided to worry about something else.
I'm a little late to the party, but I've jumped on the Lanesplitter bandwagon. I decided I wanted this skirt last spring. I started looking at colorways of Noro. Of course, I decided I wanted to knit this in a colorway that was discontinued. I wanted 233, with subtle changes of blue, grey, and green, with a smidge of pink thrown in here and there. I scoured the web looking for it - and found 11 skeins for sale. The largest size in the pattern calls for 9 skeins - I need to make mine a little bit bigger. I'm hoping with all of my might that 11 skeins will be enough. We will have to wait and see.
