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october 2007 september 2007 august 2007 july 2007 june 2007 may 2007 april 2007 march 2007 february 2007 pages about me fos 2007 fos 2008 fos 2009 fos 2010 fos 2011 fos 2012 fos 2013 fos 2014 fos 2015 fos 2016 fos 2017 fos 2018 july 2015 s m t w t f s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 jun aug meta create account log in entries feed comments feed wordpress com blogroll wordpress com wordpress org meta create account log in subscribe entries rss comments rss archive for july 2015 doppler posted by andi on july 13 2015 pattern doppler men s by marnie mclean yarn knit picks wool of the andes in chestnut 8 skeins 880 yards and hollyberry 1 skein 110 yards needles us 7 date started march 1 2015 date completed july 5 2015 let me tell you about this sweater i received the chestnut yarn from a friend in my knit group about two or three years ago she gave me this yarn and the yarn i used to make my whirlwind cardigan i had 880 yards of the chestnut yarn which wasn t quite enough to make a sweater for myself at least not one with long sleeves i showed the yarn to tim to see if he liked it since a sweater for him would take less yardage than a sweater for me he did like it so we started looking for patterns eventually tim settled on doppler which comes in two versions crew neck and turtle neck tim liked the turtle neck i looked at the yardage requirements printed on the pattern and was surprised it was so low especially since the yardage for the women s version was much higher i wasn t the only one who thought that was weird someone had left a comment on ravelry asking about that the designer said the women s version was knit out of a different weight of yarn and that s why the yardage requirements were so different it gave me some pause but i figured i had more than 200 yards more than the pattern called for of course i had enough yarn i cast on i knit the entire body and got through the sleeve cap of the first sleeve when i realized i wasn t going to have enough yarn to finish the sweater as i was working on that sleeve the skein i was using at the time seemed very low but i kept getting more and more done on the sleeve so i thought i might win this game of yarn chicken if not i would need more yarn just in case i started looking at ravelry there were a couple of people who had the chestnut yarn in the same dye lot in their stashes one looked like she wasn t very active on ravelry so i worried that if i sent her a message she would never see it i can t remember why i didn t think the other would work out maybe i didn t think she had enough or there was a project attached to it i don t recall but i remember thinking getting someone else s stash yarn was a long shot i asked the members of the puck this group on ravelry whether it would look good to knit the collar out of a different color of yarn than the rest of the sweater a couple of people said yes but that i should try to incorporate that color somewhere else such as the sleeves i thought that made sense so i brought it up to tim i pulled the other colors of wool of the andes i have as well as some other worsted weight yarns at first tim didn t seem too keen on them but then he picked the hollyberry as well as a blue worsted weight yarn and he would decide when the time comes so i kept knitting with the chestnut yarn i finished the first sleeve but it became clear during the second sleeve i was definitely not going to have enough yarn for the collar but i also might not have enough to finish the second sleeve my original plan was to rip back the first sleeve by about an inch to make the cuff out of the second color and thought i could apply that yarn to the second sleeve and i would be okay nope i ran out of yarn with maybe three or four inches to go in the second sleeve two or three inches if you figure the bottom of the sleeve was going to be in the other color ugh oh i remember now the ultimate reason why i didn t want to ask a ravelry user for the yarn i had no idea how much yarn i would need to finish the sleeve and the collar i had already used more than 200 yards than the pattern had called for so i had no idea how much yarn the collar was going to eat up we made the decision to order more yarn from knit picks since i had no idea how much yarn i needed i ordered three skeins i knew i would need at least one figured maybe two but i really didn t want to run out of yarn again i was hoping the dye lots would match and we would have a one color sweater the dye lots didn t match up well enough oh well i will be able to make a nice cowl for myself out of the yarn back to the sweater at first tim picked the blue yarn but i had a sense that it wasn t what he wanted i finally got him to admit that he only chose the blue because there was more of it and that he liked the red better i told him we would try the red and see how it goes i had a little more than one skein of the red and hoped i would have enough i started by counting how many rows i needed to finish the second sleeve then ripped back enough rows of the first sleeve to be able to make the brown portion of the sleeves the same length i put both sleeves on waste yarn and knit the collar in hollyberry first that worked out then i knit the bottom of both sleeves it took almost the full skein of yarn but i was able to finish the sweater tim likes the sweater you may note he doesn t look too happy in the photo that s because it was 85 degrees outside when i asked him to take the picture he was a very good sport and didn t complain once i took the photo as quickly as i could so he could take the sweater off right away all in all i ended up using more than 300 yards more than the pattern called for i looked at the comments on ravelry and saw that someone else had the same issue i did this while i was still knitting the sweater before i ran out of yarn the designer thought it could be due to the fact that the gauge swatch which i did was ribbed and supposed to be blocked with a little stretch and i probably stretched it too much oops i will have to keep that in mind if i make anything else where the gauge swatch is ribbed it ended up working out fine i think the sweater is more interesting with another color and it required me to be creative to come up with a solution i really like how it turned out i showed this picture to a few people who comment on how much they like the red in it and i have to chuckle a little because it certainly wasn t the plan so i used 990 yards of yarn for this pattern but purchased 330 yards from knit picks in the hopes the yarn would match i have now used up or destashed 6 747 4 yards of yarn and acquired 8072 2 yards of yarn which brings me to 83 6 not shabby anymore at least until i bought two sweater quantities of yarn last week more on that in an upcoming post posted in uncategorized leave a comment punky cappuccino socks posted by andi on july 3 2015 pattern c c s vanilla cappuccino socks by c c almon yarn knit picks stroll hand painted in punky 62 skein 286 4 yards needles us 1 date started june 16 2015 date completed june 27 2015 i love these socks i mean i really love these socks i love everything about them i love the way the colors flashed i love the way they fit i love the way the yarn feels i just love these socks i used the fish lips kiss heel for the first time with these socks and guess what i love the heel it fits great for those of you who aren t familiar with it the fish lips kiss heel is a short row heel that doesn t involve wrap turns i wanted to give this heel a shot because no matter how well i make a short row heel with wrap turns i feel like the two sides of my heel always look different i don t like how it looks but i like the ease of short row socks particularly when knitting magic loop i find picking up gusset stitches to be a bit of a pain the great thing about the instructions for the heel is that they come with instructions for toe up and cuff down socks it also has detailed instructions for measuring your foot to determine when to start the heel i have to admit i didn t do that i made these socks from the toe up and since i usually start my heels when i m 2 5 away from the full length of my foot i decided to try that and it was perfect it fits great i made a bigger cuff than usual yet i still feel like these socks didn t use enough yards they took only 286 4 yards bringing my total knit or destashed to 5 757 4 yards i destashed some yarn as a prize this week i ve procured 7 742 2 yards so i m at 74 4 ugh not where i want to be posted in uncategorized leave a comment blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed knitstant gratification sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy knitstant gratification subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar design a site like this with wordpress com get started