Mon 8 Jan 2007
In the absence of my mother…
Posted by Sea Anemone under Blabby Blabby
I used the random number generator. Hee! (I love that thing!)
Congrats to Jennifer of YarnKnita!
The RNG drew your name!
I’ll be in touch to get your address. 
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In other news, I spent Friday night with my cousin, Gwen. She’s in Spain as of this morning for the next 5 months and we wanted to hang out again before she left. She’s a total ball of energy and its great fun to be around her.
(Now this picture is from Thursday night, not Friday.)
By Saturday morning, I felt like death. So I stayed home and cast on for the Cabled Cardigan from Classic Elite’s booklet Luxe. (Jen lent it to me. Yay! Thanks!) I’d gotten a sweater’s worth of gorgeous Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool in the last days of 2006 so that I’d be doubly sure to have pacified the call of the wild yarn.
But here’s the thing. When I felt up the model of this sweater at Yarntopia, it felt thicker and more substantial. But even though, the weight according to yarn labels match, and hell, even my gauge matched (and on the first try with the right needles too!) the resulting fabric is way way different. This red stuff is much drape-ier and more fluid. Here’s my question:
Do I keep on keeping on and knit the sweater knowing that I’ll know that it’s supposed to be thicker? Or do I take a detour to the froggy pond and find something else to knit with this yarn?
I’m conflicted. Help me.
I’m also still sick from this weekend and am now taking my crud-y, cough-y, sore throat-y self off to bed with a fabulous drug that tylenol puts out that is specifically for chest congestion. The Dr. didn’t even give me anything when I went in today to whine about not feeling good and being sick. He was all like go get something from the store with <insert unpronouncable drug name here> in it. I like a Dr. who won’t write unnecessary prescriptions. It saves me money. Gotta love that!
January 9th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
That sweater looks gorgeous! I would go with the drapiness - it would probably work well since it’s a cardigan. That sucks that you’re sick, hopefully it bought you some sick days from work.
January 9th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Do you think the yarn was doubled on the store model? Sometimes they are sneaky like that. If you are otherwise happy with the way things are progressing, I would keep going.
Hope you are feeling better!
January 9th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Drapey is good. Get well soon!
January 9th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
If you think it feels ok, I’d go with it. You don’t need anything too thick and heavy here in Houston! Hope you’re feeling better.
January 9th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Just wanted to say hi :o) Your hourglass turned out great!
January 10th, 2007 at 9:54 am
If you like it, keep it drapey. I think unless a knit is very, very tailored, having a good amount of drape is more flattering.
January 10th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
The pattern did look pretty tailored on the model…but the more important thing is not that it looks just like the model - rather, that it looks just like you’d like it to. I think you’d be fine either way - I like the look of your swatch - but if not, I still say that this would qualify as a reason to “buy enough yarn to finish a project.”
Hope you’re feeling better! I’m about to hit the garlic-chicken-soup and herb-tea bandwagon myself to head off what feels like an impending Cold of Doom.
January 11th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Just traipsin’ thru on the Southern Blog Ring-get yourself some Vicks and hot tea. Really. It helps.