Emily's Knits » Baby Surprise Jacket http://knitting.tigersdawn.com Tue, 18 May 2010 06:46:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Et le Deux http://knitting.tigersdawn.com/2009/10/05/et-le-deux/ http://knitting.tigersdawn.com/2009/10/05/et-le-deux/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:47:25 +0000 Emily http://knitting.tigersdawn.com/?p=65 A second balanced skein! It’s not nearly as tightly plied as the first, and I (somewhat) succeeded at making a thicker yarn. I’ll wrap it to get a better measurement of weight when it’s finished drying. For now I’m pretty pleased with myself. Maybe soon I’ll get practiced enough to spin something aran weight -grin-.

I’m glad leaving this merino in hot water for a while doesn’t seem to injure it. I put the skein in a pot of hot water to finish and accidentally left it there on ’2′ for at least two episodes. Oops! I suppose I should get myself a kitchen timer and start using it.

The Baby Surprise Jacket isn’t going quite as well. I’m having some issues with counts and can’t seem to figure out what went wrong. Increases should be 4 every other row, and I’m off count by two stitches. In addition, the increases keep trying to get done on the wrong side of the work. I’ve put it away for tonight – I think when I pick it back up I’m going to have to rip out at least 6 or 8 rows before I can get back on track and I’m a little too sleepy to do that tonight.

Good night!

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