February 04, 2004
The Sky is Falling!! The Sky is Falling!!...Oh.
I am not the best housekeeper in the world, and certainly not the most organized, but even I was surprised when, yesterday, I stepped outside, opened my umbrella, and a bottle of hand lotion fell on my head. Oy.
Knitting Knews
A phuzzy photo of the back and one sleeve of the baby Aran sweater, artfully smooshed together to make them look like a real sweater:
I continue to pick and choose different size elements from the pattern to compensate for casting on enough stitches for an 18-month sweater but ending up with only the 9-month width. Everything still looks in proportion (based on my limited notion of how a baby's head, arms and torso all relate to one another), so I have my fingers crossed.
I was feeling rather smug about using (and even, maverick that I am, enjoying using) the $2.50 crapyarn for this sweater until I made the mistake of searching out photos of the same sweater on other blogs, like this or this or this or this (from our own Dear Reader Robbyn). These sweaters, none of which were knit in crapyarn, I don't think, all look just thatmuch spiffier than mine. Pooh. Still, I stand by my theory that industrial-strength yarn is the best choice for an industrial-strength baby. (Curiously enough, I did find one comment on another blog in which the reader said her version of the sweater, much like mine, had knitted up 1.75" smaller than the pattern said it would. Hmmmm. Gives one pause or, as Frankie would say, "Gives one paws.")
Posted by Ryan at February 4, 2004 10:31 AM
