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September 22, 2005
Not the Smartest Cookie
Pattern: One of Susanna's 'Off the Cuff' class handout pattern available elsewhere
Yarn: Rowan True 4-ply Botany in black with size 8 Japanese Seed Beads
Notes: fast and furious pattern. Just a couple of days knitting needed per cuff
I really wanted to make the heavily beaded cuffs and didn't want to pay shipping on the pattern. This means I took the class at Stitches Midwest and was reminded of the nifty crochet provi CO I showed you last week. Please don't mention the wisdom of paying $90 for a class vs $4 for shipping. I know I'm not the smartest cookie. Anyway I think I want to go down yarn size and bead size for the other cuffs. First off I have purchased every appealing size 8 seed bead my Local Beading Store LBS carries. They do not have the nifty chartreuse I covet. Nor do they have any reds. Only one purple and one periwinkle. NO good greens. The size 12 seed beads, tho much more expensive, come in a much wider color palatte so I have to figure out something between baby weight and laceweight for yarn and look into new needles. Size 2/0 down. These cuffs were knit very firmly on size 0 so finer yarn &smaller beads =thinner needles. Somebody save me from myself.
Anyway I CO for the second cuff when I finished the socks and only have to weave in my yarn ends which are artfully tucked under cuff. Very fast knitting. Good thing too. The casting on for cuff instead of facing the RS. I think the knitting goddesses were actually saving me from a lot of grief. Not the stress of under the wire knitting which I have become accustomed to over the years as a sample garment knitter. Nor the compulsive mirror imaging of all the cables. Forget the gauging issues. Nope. I got some yarn from K1C2 to knit up into a cabled sweater. For work. Can you imagine the horror of trying to complete a cabled sweater for work and another even more heavily cabled sweater for show in the span of 3 weeks? I am feeling much better realizing I was blessed by the truelly odd as in unusual for me misgauging.
Happy knitting
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