rive Friday afternoon, make bed, get settled in, dinner at 6pm, knitting until around midnight, then Ailsa and I sat outside in the a bit too cold for doing that weather, and knitted until around 1am. I wanted to finish #2 son's blanket and I did. (Picture of The Lodge). Saturday up early to a big cooked breakfast, and up to the lodge for more knitting and workshops. I cast on for Salt Peanuts from Interweave Knits Spring 2004 magazine. It said to knit with 6.5mm needles and as I never have a problem with tension I did just that. I am using an Alpaca yarn, which is not the recommended yarn, and I knitted away for most of the day, I got up to where I should have just finished decreasing for back shaping and knit straight until 29cm, I was already at 33cm and had only just finished the decreases, so how was I going to increase too far past the mark, well
the only thing to do is rip it all back to nothing, so I did.
(Picture inside the Lodge by the fireplace)
After swatching, about 3 times, I settled on size 4.5mm needles which I had to borrow off Tianne, thanks so much. So I got back to where I was on Saturday afternoon by the time I left to go home after lunch on Sunday, I knitted a bit more tonight and I have done the armhole decreases and now I am on the straight 25cm bit of the armhole. I just hope I have enough yarn, it takes 15 balls of 66m where my yarn is 100m and 10 balls. Hope it works out. (Picture looking from lodge to our Chalet's Kitchen and Dining Room). More about camp and pictures of knitting in my next post.
2 comments:
Don't you hate that?? Usually I knit one size smaller, but just every now and then, my tension is wrong. Fancy having to undo it all. Glad you all had a wonderful time!! I multiplied and in therory you have 10 metres more than you need(15x66=990, 100x10=1000) Fingers crossed!!!
It looks like I missed a good weekend. See you at the end of the month
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