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Spring knitting
May. 20th, 2013 05:13 pmAfter seeking advice from HRH Isabel, I've finished knitting my first lopi yarn project in several years, but I fear I have made comedy Dr. Seuss slippers, rather than neatly fitting comfy slippers, in spite of doing a tension swatch AND felting it, in advance.
I'll keep washing and felting them, but I suspect in the end I may have to cut the knitted fabric (!) and sew them up again, to get a slipper that fits...or just make another set with different proportions. Evidently using the DROPS pattern with a nameless Icelandic lopi yarn wasn't a success. Sigh.
However, this leaves me free to start a long-planned pair of extremely nifty socks. My borrowed 2.5mm circ is too short for this pattern, so I had to shell out for longer one, and got a long 3.0mm while I was at it. I think I'll be purging my knitting needle supply before long...
The long needles will be useful if I end up trying any of these patterns - my copy arrived a couple of weeks ago. It might be a great way to use up still more of Master Paul's monster yarn stash.
I'll keep washing and felting them, but I suspect in the end I may have to cut the knitted fabric (!) and sew them up again, to get a slipper that fits...or just make another set with different proportions. Evidently using the DROPS pattern with a nameless Icelandic lopi yarn wasn't a success. Sigh.
However, this leaves me free to start a long-planned pair of extremely nifty socks. My borrowed 2.5mm circ is too short for this pattern, so I had to shell out for longer one, and got a long 3.0mm while I was at it. I think I'll be purging my knitting needle supply before long...
The long needles will be useful if I end up trying any of these patterns - my copy arrived a couple of weeks ago. It might be a great way to use up still more of Master Paul's monster yarn stash.
