Sweater #4 – Little Rogue Riding Hood | 8:34 am | 7 November 2005
On the importance of gauge swatches:
Dammit! What a silly, silly knitter. DeeDee can’t believe it. I’d made this sweater once before, but with a different yarn. TAHKI DONGEAL TWEED IS NOT CASCADE 220 and doesn’t give the same stitches per inch on the same needles. I should totally know better than this.
A trip through the washing machine sure helped! About a quarter of the way through the felting, I cut the steek. You can’t really see it well in the photo, but this is how I did it, where ^ is the crochet chain anchor, and I cut away the three knit stitches in the middle.
} p k^ p kkk p ^k p {
At Thanksgiving, my mom is going to help me put the zipper in. I think it needs a pewter, celtic-knot button at the neck.
November 7th, 2005 at 10:22 am
I love it!
November 7th, 2005 at 4:37 pm
Wha happa!? is what deedee is saying here.
November 8th, 2005 at 8:37 am
It looks great with a bit of felting. I really love the colour.
November 8th, 2005 at 10:14 am
Very Cute! Love the red color.
November 8th, 2005 at 10:17 am
You saved the day. That red is so pretty on you too. I’m glad it worked out in the end. Thanks for the steeking idea too – good thinking!
November 8th, 2005 at 10:29 am
Thanks! Yeah, I looked high and low for a red tweed that was so red – there were a lot of orangey-reds, but this was what I finally found.
Russ’ beard shaver took down a lot of the felting halo, and really helped re-define the cables.
November 13th, 2005 at 4:35 am
You’re getting so old in your young age. Why is knitting such the rage now? Does it go along with women calling themselves ‘girls’ and the rise of the domesticated right?
On the other hand, it goes against the culture of disposable, mass-produced goods, so I can’t complain. That, and knitters seem to rule for reasons that I can’t explain.
Send my regards to Milwaukee. :-)
February 3rd, 2007 at 9:13 pm
It’s beautiful !
I’m doing one in grape Briggs and Little wool… sort of a dark heathery purple…
WHY didn’t I stumble on your site earlier….?!?! A steek !!!! What a great idea !!!
(I’d rather the cardigan style than the pullover…)
Wwelllll I guess maybe I’ll be doing a second one…
Thanks !