Knitting. It's exciting, really!
Oct. 11th, 2010 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cpolkSo one thing about deciding to write about knitting is that it's not very action packed.
Because what have i done in the last few days? put a few more rows on a top down cardigan i'm working on (it's PiNK)
And i did gauge swatches for the second round of Sylvi. though i am excited about that, because I managed to get gauge on one of my swatches.
you know, I better talk about swatches. because I'm a swatcher. I used to not be a swatcher, and then I decided that i wanted things to actually fit properly, so i started making gauge swatches.
basically before you get started on the knitiing, you knit a boring, boring square. they look like this:
BORING! omg a SQUARE. I want to knit something awesome, not a square!
Knitting the square will lead to you knitting something awesome. part of the definition of something awesome is something that fits.
so a walkthrough these swatches: the oldest swatch is the green one. you can tell because I have uneven tension on the swatch - i made my purls looser than I made my knits. you can see from the pink swatch that my tension is a lot more even now. I figured out how to solve my loose purling while working on the thing the green swatch was originally for.
the two purple squares are my swatches for sylvi.the one in the center was done on 5mm needles, the one on the right is done on 6mm needles. the one on the right is the correct gauge.
If you click to see that picture embiggened, you'll see that the purple swatches are kind of holey. I'm distressed about this, but the original sylvi is also holey just like this. so i'm going to go ahead and knit it the way it is.
Because what have i done in the last few days? put a few more rows on a top down cardigan i'm working on (it's PiNK)
And i did gauge swatches for the second round of Sylvi. though i am excited about that, because I managed to get gauge on one of my swatches.
you know, I better talk about swatches. because I'm a swatcher. I used to not be a swatcher, and then I decided that i wanted things to actually fit properly, so i started making gauge swatches.
basically before you get started on the knitiing, you knit a boring, boring square. they look like this:
BORING! omg a SQUARE. I want to knit something awesome, not a square!
Knitting the square will lead to you knitting something awesome. part of the definition of something awesome is something that fits.
so a walkthrough these swatches: the oldest swatch is the green one. you can tell because I have uneven tension on the swatch - i made my purls looser than I made my knits. you can see from the pink swatch that my tension is a lot more even now. I figured out how to solve my loose purling while working on the thing the green swatch was originally for.
the two purple squares are my swatches for sylvi.the one in the center was done on 5mm needles, the one on the right is done on 6mm needles. the one on the right is the correct gauge.
If you click to see that picture embiggened, you'll see that the purple swatches are kind of holey. I'm distressed about this, but the original sylvi is also holey just like this. so i'm going to go ahead and knit it the way it is.