Knits

While I knit more than I realised in 2006, there were large gaps of time where I didn’t knit at all. I hope to knit as close to daily as possible this year.

I’m knitting a number of hats for my sister again. We both went and chose a number of yarns and she’s selected two patterns so far. I’ve started on Shedir from the Knitty Breast Cancer issue (PDF), but using Rowan RYC Silk Wool DK instead of Rowan Calmer.

First, I’m finding the cabling very slow going which I’m finding very frustrating. I started the hat a couple of weeks ago and even though I haven’t been knitting as frequently as I’d like due to social commitments, I could’ve knit a couple of other hats in the amount of time I’ve knit a third of this one! Next, the wool is really nice and soft and squishy, but despite it having near identical gauge to Calmer (Calmer is 21sts x 30 rows and Silk wool is 22sts x 30 rows according to ball bands), the cables aren’t popping as much as I’d like. Perhaps it’s also the colour, a dark foresty green, but it’s sort of disappointing. Or perhaps it’s a combination of the colour and fibre content (silk and wool, duh) versus the content of Calmer (cotton and acrylic) so it makes it fluffier even if it knits to the same gauge.
My sister chose this particular pattern so she’d have something to wear when they go out for nicer occasions. Perhaps I should just rip this one out, despite the hours of work that have gone into it, and buy the Calmer in black perhaps and start again. I’m sure she’d be happy with it how it is, but I know it could look better. I think I’ve already made my decision… riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip. Sigh, that’s what happens when one is a perfectionist.

Maybe in the meantime I will start my scarf - the Cinnabar scarf from the December Magknits. I’m going to knit it in Rowan RYC Silk Wool in a creamy colour. I might even cast on for that tonight.

I got a big plastic-coated box to store some of my wool in. I have a lined wicker basket, but that’s grown too small and it’s also exposed to all the dust and cat hair in the house so I’ll put as much of my wool into this new box as I can and leave the wicker basket for current projects (those are lying around on various flat surfaces hehehe). I’m also handwriting myself a wool inventory. Yikes.

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