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Oh boy, was it October when I last wrote about my knitting!? It was a miracle I even remembered to do my knitting year in review, to be completely honest. This year has been weird.
I hope to do better in 2021. Writing about my life helps me remember (even if only because I can read back what I wrote!) and it urges me to take a look at what I've been up to. All good things. We've been waiting, hiding, hoping for this pandemic to end. If that's all we do, that's not a lot. Instead, I hope to focus on the positive things as well.
In October I made a quick update about my knitting progress; how I had to start over on the Solstice jumper because my brioche gauge was so different from the stockinette gauge.
At the start of December I frogged the entire thing. I made a mistake in my brioche and just as I'd fixed it, I made another one. The second time around, frogging back to fix my error did not work out so well, I may have started with the wrong colour and couldn't get it right. I was about 18 centimeters into the brioche bit and ended up frogging the whole thing.
Yeah, that was not so fun.
But five skeins of lovely Malabrigo will never go to waste. I found another pattern I really liked and cast on the Poison Oak from Carina Spencer instead. The purple and navy Malabrigo had enough contrast but were of the same family, making it a subdued colour combo that I like. It would have been pretty as the Solstice as well. But wrestling with the endless cables of the Pumpkin Ale had me yearning for a simple stockinette jumper and Poison Oak filled that gap very well indeed.
The above picture was taken just 4 rows (two stripes) before separating the sleeves. Already the point in the front is very pronounced, and I'm at this time "knit until the widest part of the bust". I'm not quite sure how they expect me to find it with the knitting going in such a point, but I guess I'll measure it on the side seams.
(The new PC doesn't have Lightroom so I can't edit any RAW images on here, so that will take some getting used to. As long as the old PC has, I suppose I could always edit my pictures at work if necessary. )
Some eight rows after I took the picture, I weighed my yarn. There's a little over 30 grams left on the first skein of navy, and the other skein of navy is from a different dye bath. I decided to start blending that in already, doing a single row of navy from either skein to bled the colours together and hopefully not get a big jog like I did in my Harvest cardigan. It's prone to tangle a bit more, but after 10 such stripes I can save the rest of the first skein to start the sleeves with. Seeing how much of my yarn was already taken up and the widest part of my body still to come, I think I may have to order another skein of the navy blue (I had three skeins of purple to begin with, so I may have enough).
I didn't want to start blending the purple yet - knitting with four skeins at the same time is a headache I wish to avoid! If anything, this experiment will tell me how many grams to a stripe, giving me a good estimate of when to start blending the purples...
As far as headaches go, this one is pretty straightforward. So far, I'm not finding any need to make alterations to the pattern, which is also nice for a change. (I may have gained enough weight to finally be a single size for a change!) I may want to fit my work soon, though. Just to see how much farther before I can start shaping for the waist.
I hope to do better in 2021. Writing about my life helps me remember (even if only because I can read back what I wrote!) and it urges me to take a look at what I've been up to. All good things. We've been waiting, hiding, hoping for this pandemic to end. If that's all we do, that's not a lot. Instead, I hope to focus on the positive things as well.
In October I made a quick update about my knitting progress; how I had to start over on the Solstice jumper because my brioche gauge was so different from the stockinette gauge.
At the start of December I frogged the entire thing. I made a mistake in my brioche and just as I'd fixed it, I made another one. The second time around, frogging back to fix my error did not work out so well, I may have started with the wrong colour and couldn't get it right. I was about 18 centimeters into the brioche bit and ended up frogging the whole thing.
Yeah, that was not so fun.
But five skeins of lovely Malabrigo will never go to waste. I found another pattern I really liked and cast on the Poison Oak from Carina Spencer instead. The purple and navy Malabrigo had enough contrast but were of the same family, making it a subdued colour combo that I like. It would have been pretty as the Solstice as well. But wrestling with the endless cables of the Pumpkin Ale had me yearning for a simple stockinette jumper and Poison Oak filled that gap very well indeed.
The above picture was taken just 4 rows (two stripes) before separating the sleeves. Already the point in the front is very pronounced, and I'm at this time "knit until the widest part of the bust". I'm not quite sure how they expect me to find it with the knitting going in such a point, but I guess I'll measure it on the side seams.
(The new PC doesn't have Lightroom so I can't edit any RAW images on here, so that will take some getting used to. As long as the old PC has, I suppose I could always edit my pictures at work if necessary. )
Some eight rows after I took the picture, I weighed my yarn. There's a little over 30 grams left on the first skein of navy, and the other skein of navy is from a different dye bath. I decided to start blending that in already, doing a single row of navy from either skein to bled the colours together and hopefully not get a big jog like I did in my Harvest cardigan. It's prone to tangle a bit more, but after 10 such stripes I can save the rest of the first skein to start the sleeves with. Seeing how much of my yarn was already taken up and the widest part of my body still to come, I think I may have to order another skein of the navy blue (I had three skeins of purple to begin with, so I may have enough).
I didn't want to start blending the purple yet - knitting with four skeins at the same time is a headache I wish to avoid! If anything, this experiment will tell me how many grams to a stripe, giving me a good estimate of when to start blending the purples...
As far as headaches go, this one is pretty straightforward. So far, I'm not finding any need to make alterations to the pattern, which is also nice for a change. (I may have gained enough weight to finally be a single size for a change!) I may want to fit my work soon, though. Just to see how much farther before I can start shaping for the waist.
