Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Dueling Noros

I'm having a hard time dedicating myself to getting the beautiful Butterfly done because Earnshaw Revised keeps calling to me. Here we have the backs of both sweaters....



This is actually the 3rd version of Earnshaw Revised. The original pattern called for 4 stitches to the inch on size 10 needles. Yeah. Right. I had to go down to size 8 to get that gauge and the fabric felt like cardboard. So I made a nice big swatch (5 inches by 6 inches) on size 10 needles. I liked the feel, so I rewrote the pattern to be slightly smaller (44 inches instead of 49) and use my new gauge.

Proving that gauge swatches sometimes lie, I got 13 inches into the back when I realized it looked big. Really BIG. My gauge had grown and was measuring out at a finished width of 52 inches!! So I went down to a size 9 needle, recalculated the gauge and cast on 80 stitches.

Proving YET AGAIN that gauge swatches can't be be trusted, this time it was too small. So here we are at Take Three, with 84 stitches and it's Just Right. Look how yummy this fabric is...




Butterfly Worries

hmmm.... I used four entire balls of Kureyon for the Butterfly sleeves. And so far I'm part way thru the second ball on the back. My size only calls for 11 balls... and from reading about Theresa's Butterfly I know the collar takes more than one complete ball. So that means I have 4 balls left to finish the back and both fronts and I'm not even half way thru the back yet. My gauge is dead on correct.

Anyone else made or making the smallest size? How is your yarn holding up?

Scarf City.

I joined the Scarf Style Knit Along the other day... instead of posting duplicate pictures I'm just going to post scarf progress on the Scarf Style Blog. I'm working on both Ruffles and the Campus scarf right now. Since I am not really a scarf person I'm not sure what I'll do with them when they are done!

Now, I'm heading off to Comp USA to try and return the Memory Stick Duo I purchased a few weeks ago with my new camera. Although the camera can read the memory stick just fine, none of the three computers in the house can read it so getting pictures off is impossible.



Anne at 2:57 PM        
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