I have been sidelined by a stomach bug for a few days, but I
did manage to knit a quick scarf for my mother (pictures tomorrow, needs finishing work) and coerce my wonderful husband into winding the balls of yarn for my Knitting Olympics project (he's a truly excellent ball winder - but sorry, he's not available for rent or sale). I am making Noro Knits' Eloise as a vest for my grandmother (she lives in Florida, so the sleeves would be overkill). Instead of Noro I'm using Cascade 220 in an as-yet-undetermined stripe pattern.I swatched on 8s as called for in the pattern - yup, too tight. Got gauge and a nice loose fabric with 10s, and cast on at 2PM. Spent most of the afternoon and evening doing a little knitting and a lot of undescribable stomach virus related program activities, but got this much done :
I took one additional picture with the flash, but eh, it's ribbing. You know what it looks like.
Not to rain on your parade, Krista, but did you wash your swatch?
ReplyDelete(And BTW, I reaaaally do want to borrow that husband of yours for ball-winding duty after the Olympics. There's this pretty laceweight in my stash...)