Gaaaaah!
So, are you going to finish that today?
Maybe. Why?
I’m just tired of looking at it. How long have you been working on it, a month?
Not really. When we were on vacation, I only worked on it on the plane and that one little bit at your mom’s house.
Well, maybe it just seems like a long time because you had to frog it so much.
Mmmmm…[thinks about it]…only once. I think. But yeah, I should have it done today.
Yeah. Uh, huh. Famous last words….
‘member how I said I thought the neck on the blue & white sweater for Jubal’s baby was too small? Well, that’s the least of my worries. For a while, I was worried about the armholes because the dimensions in the pattern seemed too small. I ended up making them an inch or so bigger than the pattern said to. Well, I got 3/4 of the way through knitting the sleeves today [relaxing on Jim & Toots' patio in Terra Linda, watching/listening to the Things and J&T's grandkids run around and play, chatting with whoever was hanging out on the patio at the moment], and I realized that the armholes are JUST. TOO. SMALL. The main problem with this, of course, is that I’ve already joined the shoulders together (three-needle bind-off; I avoid seaming as much as possible, remember?).
Any suggestions? (Other than just deciding it’s a cleaning rag or weirdly-shaped dish cloth?)
Meanwhile, I try to figure out what sort of baby item I can get out of approximately 300 yards of DK-weight AllHemp6 + oh, 100 or so yards of a thinner hemp yarn. Nana thinks all could I get is a hat or so. Hubby took a piece of the AllHemp6 and had fun taking it apart, examining the fibers.
This is really interesting. The individual strands a thin, but I can - what’s the word?
Draft?
Yeah, draft. I can draft it even thinner. This is cool.
[Wifey thinks that it's probably not called drafting when the fiber has already been spun, but that's OK. She's just glad that he finds the fiber interesting.]
