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01/10/2006

good news and 1/2 a FO

Good news!

I finished knitting the first sleeve of Haven, ran it through the washing machine a few times, and it looks like it'll fit into the front and back of the sweater. I haven't approached seaming yet, since it's such a daunting task. I'm not a very meticulous sewer, and this sweater offers new concerns. Assuming I can set the sleeve in well (not impossible, but still something that scares me - how do people deal with the corners at the top of the sleeves? I can never make that look anything except...pointy), there's still the issue of the yarn. Should I seam with Denim, even though it might shrink? If I use this yarn to seam, I'll use the yarn from my gauge swatch, or maybe from a new swatch I knit and throw into the washing machine. But what if it still shrinks? If I use another yarn, it won't shrink, but what if the rest of the sweater does, and it puckers? This is why I put both pieces through the wash twice. Maybe I'll put everything in one more time before I start seaming. Either way, it looks like I'm going to finish the second sleeve before I start seaming. I'm about 1/4 done with it so far, so it shouldn't be long now.

I also finished 1/2 of a pair of socks:


It's kind of great, the way I've started and not finished so many projects. Finishing them has been so easy and quick and fun! This sock is my first knit from a skein of Trekking XXL I bought a few months ago. Plain stockinette, using bits and pieces of different patterns I found online. It's not perfect - I've only ever finished one pair of socks, in Koigu KPPPM, although I've started and stopped others. I'm not sure if sock knitting is for me. Maybe with a pattern? But then there's swatching involved, and my hatred for swatching in the round...For now I'll put this sock aside and consider knitting it's partner.

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