Mikknit

Knitting ribbing after almost two glasses of beer (Chris‘s homebrewed Scottish Ale) is not so easy, especially with a slippery 16″ needle.

I’m working on the crotch of another soaker for Arlo, this one in Kraemer Yarns’ Naturally Nazareth, in the Autumn colorway. I’m having some gauge issues with this stuff. It’s labeled as an Aran weight, and I got a gauge of 4.5 sts/in on a #5, but when I started with the numbers for the heavier-weight soaker, I ended up with a gauge of 5.5 sts/in. Now I see 5 sts/in, which would be too big for him. I suppose I’ll put it on him before I completely finish it and see if it needs to go to the frog pond.

I swatched for a sweater for Grace today – eye-scorchingly bright pink Brown Sheep NatureSpun that she chose herself. She is not a wallflower! I think it’s going to be a raglan pullover with a picot hem & cuffs. I’m not sure if I’ll be knitting it in the round or flat. If I knit it flat, I may do a few intarsia hearts (or something else) to jazz it up – I’ve got some other similarly lurid colors of NatureSpun laying about that could be used.

I suppose that if I attempted the intarsia I could use that as a project for the Knitting Olympics. Knitting it in the round would just be sandbagging. Not that I couldn’t use some sandbags in my life…

It is widely known, at least by my husband, select friends and LYS owners, that I loathe intarsia. For me to consider doing intarsia is big. I’ve done one project in intarsia – this was four years ago and I’m still annoyed by it. Or maybe I’m just annoyed by the repair job I had to do on that one – one of my cats ate a few holes in the sweater while it was drying. Who knows, but it turned our damned cute.

Okay. Drinking beer #3 here and typing is getting tough. I’d better pack it in. Pictures tomorrow, I promise! I finally got batteries for the camera!