Spring Ribbing
Even though it still doesn't feel like spring here in Chicago, I've decided that it is time to get started on my spring knitting. With the way my time has been lately, I know that if I don't get started now, the spring knitting won't happen at all.
Last summer I bought the yarn for this comfy spring/summer sweater with the help of a friendly enabling rabbit. However, I hadn't started it by fall, and since I didn't think it would be a good bet for winter (and I was getting frustrated trying, unsuccessfully, to get gauge), I left the yarn to hibernate and dream of springy fashions in my closet.
After a more or less successful new swatch on 3.75 mm needles, I decided that I would move onto a sleeve and use that as a real test of my gauge.
This yarn is not so nearly bubble-gum pink as it appears in these pictures. In person, it is most definitely pink, but much more in the rose end of the spectrum. To say this project will likely move slowly is something of an understatement. At 39 rows/inch this knitting does not go by quickly. And it is very easy (for me, at least) to lose track and make mistakes in the ribbing (you can see this fairly clearly in the picture). But the texture is nice and the knitted fabric has a nice feel, so I am hoping the long term result will be worth the effort. I'm somewhat unsatisfied with the vertical edges of my ribs, but I'm hoping that will even out following blocking and garment washing, as happened with my Phil'Onde sweater.
I've decided that this sweater and one other will be my primary new wardrobe goals for the spring/early summer. And since this sweater is coming out of my stash, I decided that I could treat myself and order new yarn for the second one. Hopefully the new arrival will land on my doorstep sometime this week!
I think that color is perfect for you! The fabric looks beautiful. Re the small gauge: I hear you, T. I'm currently starting a baby sweater that needs to be done by next week and it's on 3mm bamboos! They feel so teeny after the honkin' needles I was using this winter. And I can't believe I taught myself to knit using such small needles. Hee!
Just computering. No knitting here.
39 rows to the inch?!? Are you knitting with spider silk? Anyhoo, it's a lovely, spring-ish color. It looks like it'll make a great sweater for cool pre-summer nights.
39 rows to the inch? Surely you mean to 4 inches....YOWZERS!
I was taken aback by 39 rows/inch, too--a sweater at that gauge really would take an eternity to knit (and probably stand up on its own)!
You guys are all correct -- it's really 39 rows to 4". It just feels like 39 rows to the inch to knit compared to some of the other projects I've worked on lately... for instance, Sigil was just 5 rows to the inch -- this project is almost double!
Could you post a picture of the pattern for this sweater? The link only shows the cover of the magazine, which isn't on their website anymore. I'm just interested because I've seen this yarn and would love to knit something with it but haven't seen a pattern I like.
Thanks, Janet