Hard to believe isn't it?
I have decided to make a sweater this summer and I ordered the yarn for it toward the end of last week. I had finished up all of my major projects so I decided to work on my bag for D.C. that I had set aside. The reason it had been set aside was that I knew it was too small and didn't want to work on it any more, but I also didn't want to do a guage swatch and rip it out and start over again.
Last friday I took the plunge. I knit up a proper swatch and discovered that to get gauge I needed to hold the yarn double. At this point I was volunteering with my mom at the library but, it being memorial day weekend and all, it was really slow. So I pulled the bag out of my bag and I started to frog it. This was the biggest thing I had ever frogged, and it was really fun. My mom was shocked at how much work I was simply pulling out stitch by stitch and row by row. It kinda looks like my hair doesn't it?
Anyway, the next problem I had was that the base of this bag the yarn is worked double so I had one section of yarn that I needed to separate from the other part. I got started that night but had to go to a graduation party before I could really make any headway. The party was great, but I didn't get home till almost 2am that night. I stayed up till 3am trying to separate this yarn which was going to be a painstakingly slow process.
Finally I admitted defeat for the time being when I couldn't keep my eyes focoused on the flowing yarn in front of me. The next day was our memorial day party and I had to spend the morning cleaning, but I had just enough time to get my yarn untangled wound into a hank and washed so that it could dry for the rest of the afternoon. By the time the party was offically over a little past 10pm I went to check on my yarn and found it was still rather wet at the bottom. I really wanted to cast this back on the next day so I got a small portable fan and laid the yarn on it so it would dry faster. An hour later I deemed it close enough and got down to the business of winding it up.
Now because I had decided to use the yarn double and the pattern called for using the yarn
double for the base I was going to knit it with the yarn held quadruple. I had 2 skeins of yarn that were already in use and I tried to get close enough to halving of each of those skeins so I could just use those to begin with and I hoped that it would be enough for the base. Finally after another late night it was all wound up and ready to go.I cast on the next morning at church and in that one day knit up more than the yarn I had previously used and was down to one skein left.
I needed to buy more yarn. My sweater yarn hadn't come in yet and if I ran out of yarn for this project before it got here I didn't know what I was going to do because I don't want to have too many projects going on at once (crazy, huh?)
Finally today all of my yarn was shipped and should arrive in a couple of days. Hopefully I won't run out of yarn after all.
Stay tuned to find out about my very first sweater!!
"Have fun storming the castle!"
