... and on the Round Trip. I am at the stage where I am SO close to done, but still need to keep going. According to the pattern I would be done by now, but I am lengthening the sleeves. I have also, amazingly, been cleaning the house primarily in order to find the manual for this digital camera. It's got to be here somewhere.
As I said in an earlier post, I love the Shinano yarn. But I think the next project should be with something that feels very different. The Shinano feels more like the silk (30%) than the wool -- not very elastic, and it has a very rustic, i.e, rough, texture. As soon as I can get those sleeves done, and wash it, I'll see what how the yarn changes. The swatch softened up quite a bit. I have more Shinano, in other colors, but I think the tactile experience of knitting is demanding a change. It's also good for my hands to start using a different size needle, so I might use some of the sport or DK that I have. But definitely something soft.
At a LYS last week I saw a pair of mittens made with one strand of boucle and one strand of something smooth, and the mittens looked and felt as if they had been fulled or felted. Super soft, super warm. They would also be super quick -- combining the old Alpaca boucle that I have with a worsted should give me a gauge of about 2.8 st/inch. That's using a formula someone has mentioned on the knit lists -- to guestimate the gauge when combining two yarns, add the two gauges together and then divide by three.
I still have to put the zipper into the Vittadini sweater, so I shouldn't count that as a finished project.
rob
Posted by at February 7, 2004 07:23 PMThat all sounds great! Can't wait to see pictures. :-)
Noro yarn looks and sounds so lovely!