Hazy days of summer

Over the past few days I've been able to put in some time to starting Carla. I'm using Cotton Tape in Hazy. For the first time in a while, I'm not having any doubts about my colour selection. I'm really happy with this one! Yesterday I ended up wondering through a few shops, looking a early fall clothes and I found that Hazy coordinates with a lot of items that I was drawn towards. I didn't end up buying any thing to go with the sweater...that can wait until the sweater is completed.

Back to the matter at hand...did I swatch for Carla? I had "swatched"**, however when I "swatched" I wasn't quite doing the pattern correctly. Here's an example of my fine skills of erroneously reading the pattern. See the knit stitches every third stitch? That's what you get when you risread where the asterisk is (ie: what stitches you should be repeating). It was truely mistfying me what I was doing wrong, until I re-read the pattern. The gauge of that 'swatch' is 10st to 10cm. I believe the target is 9st to 10cm. I figured that was close enough.

Since figuring out where I went wrong, I've since reworked the section above the ribbing (ie: the back of the sweater) things are looking much better.

This is much much better looking!


Knitting this sweater is going take concentration as some have pointed out, because it will be difficult to find the stitches after frogging. So I'm being patient with this one!

I'm a little worried that I'll run out of yarn. I always worry about that, but this time I quite nervous. I ordered one extra ball, just in case, but wonder if I should have played safe and gotten two. We'll see. When I finished my first ball I had knit 21cm of the back (including the ribbing band, which used more yarn). I'm going to lengthen the body by a few cm's as well as the arms to accomodate my height. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

That's it for now! Tomorrow I've got a 4 hour car journey and maybe I'll be able to put a dent into the second skein while driving..however I'm a little nervous of taking this as a car project.


** I have a really bad habit of just starting the project and checking the gauge on the swatch once I've started. Notice that my erroneous swatch had a ribbing band on the bottom as well. tsk tsk!