I'm a very economical knitter, always have yarn over and so when looking at this sweater for my Mum, where we had 10 x 110m balls instead of 10 x 116m balls, thought that this would do given I was going to shorten the body by around 6cm and the sleeves by around 5cm.
After starting the back and getting onto my third ball I became concerned that the yarn estimate was inaccurate. There are a lot of yarn overs in the pattern which always take more that a straight knit. So I stopped there and knitted the sleeves to see what was left. After doing the maths I worked out I had enough yarn for a sweater for a dwarf, or a sweater with a back and one-third of a front! I do think the yardage is wrong for this pattern - Ghyll in The Knitter 78.
So I frogged it, the yarn is now awaiting Mum's decision on something else.
Sunday, 15 March 2015
Friday, 6 March 2015
Recycled Cardi
This cardi was knitted out of Noro (Silk Garden, I think) which I recycled from a top I no longer wear. When you unravel a project, the books tell you to wash the yarn but I didn't bother, just balled it up and re-knitted it straight away.
Noro's a good quality yarn that will stand this kind of treatment, and the cardigan looks great, no kinks other than the ones inherent in the irregular noro yarn. And so warm....
Noro's a good quality yarn that will stand this kind of treatment, and the cardigan looks great, no kinks other than the ones inherent in the irregular noro yarn. And so warm....
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