{"id":980,"date":"2010-02-15T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T01:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=980"},"modified":"2010-02-15T11:46:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T01:46:34","slug":"and-inbetween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"And inbetween.."},"content":{"rendered":"

So I do actually knit the finished projects I show here. I’ve not been very good at showing the progress type pictures of late, have I?
\nI’ve been trying out Project Monogamy lately. It’s very unlike me, I get bored far too easily to stick to it for very long. However, it’s very productive. Makes sense really, don’t know why I’ve been so surprised!
\nI’m currently working on the Featherweight Cardigan<\/a>. I saw Ailsa’s and straight away decided that I had to make one. And we all know that I’m not lacking for laceweight yarn! So I had a dig through the stash and surfaced with some Dream In Color<\/a> Baby in “In Vino, Veritas” (Love that name!) that I’d acquired from The Loopy Ewe<\/a> some time ago. It’s a heavy laceweight, made from Australia Merino. Nice and squishy!
\nI swatched, somehow got a needle size three sizes than recommended, and cast on. A sane person would have figured then that 3 sizes smaller could be problematic, but I’ve never been known for thinking things through.
\nAfter knitting for a while, I began to think that maybe it was looking a little small. So I measured it, and sure enough, I should have been using bigger needles. I was feeling particularly lazy (again, not unusual), so instead of frogging the whole thing, I decided to get clever.
\nI was using 3.25mm (US3) needles, so I pulled out a 2.25mm (US1) needle and threaded it through a row of stitches quite a few rows back.
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\nThen I just frogged it back, reknit the stitches onto the bigger needle, and didn’t have to worry about losing any stitches anywhere. (Still recovering from the Cap Shawl debacle<\/a> here).
\nI decided to rip it back to that point for a few reasons. I could have just frogged it and started over, but like I keep saying, I’m inherently lazy. I then convinced myself that because the cardi is knit at such a loose tension, having the first few rows around the neck in a tighter gauge will help add stability. (Yes, I can justify anything). At any rate, it worked nicely, the armholes are still deep enough, and it’s pretty much flying off the needles.
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\nMy camera hates this colour for some reason. Of course, now that I’ve mentioned how quick it is, something is going to go horribly wrong. Stay tuned.
\nMind you, I’m seeing the benefits of this project monogamy stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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