Well, my Rye Field Pullover finished blocking Thursday evening, and I was unfortunately right - it's too big :-/ No surprise too, as I tried measuring the gauge and it grew from the 25sts/10cm of the blocked swatch to 21.5sts / 10cm in the blocked garment! Maybe one of these days I will FINALLY learn that merino GROWS when blocked, and I need to make a large swatch instead of just rushing to get on with the project.
Ah well, it doesn't look too bad on me. Not what I had hoped for, but not bad enough that I'm going to reknit it either. Something to keep in mind if I ever knit it again though.
The Rainbow Vanilla socks have been my commute knitting this past week, and have seen quite significant progress as a a result. I have one done (but for the heel) and the other is almost at the point where I put the waste yarn in for the afterthought heel.
I really love knitting with this yarn - so colourful and cheerful! I can get almost 4 stripes done a day, just through travel knitting, so they should be done soon :) In fact, I may have to put them aside for a bit, and save the heels for StashDash (5K knitting from May 22nd to August something :-D )
Finally I put a serious dent into the baby blanket for Nora over the weekend. So significant, in fact, that I figured out that if I just knit one square per day for the rest of the month, I'll finish on May 31st! So that is now my stated goal - one square per day for the next 26 days. We'll see if I actually manage to keep it up (and if I have enough scrap yarn! That'd be a fun hurdle... ;) ).
Each square takes me about 45 minutes, so it's not an insane goal. Even if I miss a day here or there, it will be possible to catch up. In fact, right now I'm a day ahead! :-D
I think it looks great! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI think the sweater looks really good.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the sweater looks fab! I'm doing StashDash this year too! Will you be posting in the KnitGirllls ravelry group?
ReplyDeleteThat's the plan! :)
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