Things started out very well... I cast on at 2:00 pm and the bambino had a SUPER nap allowing me lots of uninterrupted knitting time. By the time I had viewed the opening ceremonies, I was doing pretty great. (These pics are from my Ravelry page- reminder there's a link in the sidebar {----->} so you can monitor my Olympic progress.)
Saturday, buoyed by some good napping again, I was able to really make progress.
This photo was taken at 8:00 pm. The tragedy happened somewhere around 10:30. I finished the cuff section and I had three nagging issues:
1) The picot cuff looked crooked
2) The white yarn seems to be too thin to stand up against the beige yarn and the stitches were looking a little off. (Beyond blocking help, off)
3) I could barely, BARELY get the cuff over my hand and it fit tight on my wrist.
I decided to admit the false start and start again.
I recast on this afternoon making a few adjustments. I went up a needle size, because even though I knit a GAUGE swatch, that swatch LIED to me. (I can't even bring myself to look at the gauge swatch right now I'm so mad at it.) Secondly, I changed the contrast color yarn. I had a creamy color knitpicks in my stash that had more "heft" and "loft" to it, and I think it will stand up better to the stitches in the beige.
So far, I'm right.
(MUCH better)
It hurts to have lost two days of knitting to this failure- but I'm hoping that I can "deal with this injury" early on and that it won't destroy my Olympic gold medal dreams. I've told myself if I can knit the entire hand by Thursday, I'll still be in good shape to finish. Wish me luck!
1 comment:
Go Jen Go!!
Post a Comment