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December 07, 2004
A little piece on the side never hurt anyone
Well. Rogue and I had our first little disagreement last night. . .I had cast off for the armholes and knit up about half of the back portion when I realized that my gauge looked different on the flat knitting than on the knitting in the round. I did swatch for both (I cut off all those ends of yarn to swatch in the round, even though I consider it a waste of yarn, out of respect for Rogue's designer, who is a way smarter knitter than me), and found that my gauge was the same in the round on a 4.5mm circular and flat on 5mm straights. Even so, the portion of knitting on the straight needles was clearly looser. SO, I had to rip out and continue knitting flat on the 4.5mm circ instead.
Since Rogue tricked me with the gauge thing, I felt the need to get passive aggressive with her. I dug out this old beast, the last remnant of the days when I was an enthusiastic young knitter who knew squat about shaping, drape or stretch, and started unravelling it.
Then I swatched for Cathode.
Is this a mere dalliance? Hard to say. It's easy to start something and then drop it like a hot potato when it's from recycled stash yarn; there's really no sense of commitment there. But then, when I was in the yarn store today buying something else, somehow this wound up in my bag.
Don't you think this would be perfect for Cathode's contrast ribbing?
Posted by jodi at December 7, 2004 05:11 PM | categories: sticks and string