Faster faster
Saturday July 08th 2017, 9:38 pm
Filed under: Knitting a Gift,Wildlife

Yardage times desired length divided by time…

And so I supplemented the 900 grams of heavy dk weight with 760 grams of a matching thinner 4-ply, even if it meant waiting for the second cone to arrive. It just came.

I swatched on the 10s–that would go fast for sure.

In your dreams, honey. I scoured it in hot water, hoping it would shrink enough. A little, maybe, but, c’mon.

I swatched on the 9s. Give it up, honey.

8s are as low as I’m going. It *will* shrink, but it will also bloom out when I wash the finished afghan. But I am not pre-scouring two pounds on that niddy-noddy at once. Okay, then, we’re on.

It’s a race to see which runs out first, the yarn or me. Me. There’s probably ~2500 yards on the dk and twice that on the 4-ply, and starting a black afghan in two strands of loosely-plied yarns was probably not my smartest move–it was the fifty bucks for two pounds of cashmere (the best bargains went fast) that did me in and here we are.

I’m figuring I need to do five inches a day to totally be on the safe side, time-wise. So far, I’ve done a whopping three. Which is actually not shabby at all.

(Edited to add: got it to 4,” we’ll say five if you stretch it. Meantime, someone’s setting off illegal fireworks outside and made a skunk mad, which is good for my asthma but probably not what they intended.)


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Skunk is good for your asthma? You are always a great source for making me learn new things! Never knew what a niddy-noddy was – now I do! Thanks – I should know that, but I don’t spin (yet) and will store the knowledge in the aging memory banks. ~chris

Comment by chris 07.09.17 @ 7:45 am

I love how you count your worktime. 🙂 I should do the same so that more projects progress…

That yarn looks soooooooo soft!!!

Comment by Suzanne in Montreal 07.10.17 @ 6:33 am



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