Well Stitch n’ Bitch was fun last night. But no one there knew anything more about picking up stitches on edges of the bag than I did!
So I, who in what seems like another lifetime, would fearlessly talk people (who could barely speak english) through taking computers apart and putting them back together over the phone, trudged onward! Amidst declarations of.. Oh no I don’t know what I am doing I don’t use needles, and the oohs and aahs of one of my knitting comrades, I did it! (it was easy) BoogaJ writes a good pattern!!
Well, I got the stitches picked up. The pattern makes it easy to to because there are 17 ridges so you just pick up a stitch between each ridge on the side! I started knitting the first row and placed all my markers and it came out just right so I kept going. Then I realised, the little rings I had brought to use as stitch markers all looked the same 😯 ut oh! How was I supposed to know when each round started to count the rows? That’s one thing I don’t have to worry about with a knitting loom! Oh bother! Well I tied a little peice of yarn on the ring at the beginning of the round so that solves that problem! (note to self: get stitch markers! coloured ones!)
I came home to an empty house! They were all out at the store buying Azia her new bike! So I cast on for the second sleeve of the sweater. I only got a few rows done before they got home. I should be able to get a bunch done on Thursday! big TV night.. I took a pic, but hey! It looks the same as the other one, I won’t bore you!
My last order of yarn for the book came too. But there’s a problem! The Moda Dea yarn I was going to pair with some TLC yarn are two very different colours! They are both called Lavender, and the swatches online and in the catalogue look very similar, at least compatable, but they are not in real life! The Moda Dea yarn is solidly periwinkle! So I have to run around and find some Red Heart classic, or super saver in light periwinkle. If I can’t switch it here I will have to send it back to switch with my contact at Coats&Clark! Oh well. Lesson learned! NEVER trust swatches!!!
I am sure there will be many more lessons learned by the time this is over!
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