Comments on: Well, crap.

By: juno

juno — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:34:50 +0000

Yeah, the highland wool chunky isn’t really a chunky – it holds up beautifully if you knit it a tighter gauge.

I second and third the Beaverslide recommendation. I’m knitting in their aran weight right now and had to rip and reknit the first 3 inches 4 times – held up beautifully and the McTaggert tweeds in the fisherman’s weight are gorgeous colors and very affordable.
The Araucania bulky nature wool is on close out at Webs too. Or the Jaeger Extra Fine Merino Chunky, also on closeout. I don’t know how hard the last 2 will wear – but they have great colors at great prices.

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:23:23 +0000

A bought a bunch of Rowan’s Calmer to make the B&B sweater about a year ago at a yarn sale. I think it will be nice because it is lighter and a little stretchy. I got about halfway up one side and realized I had screwed up a cable about 4″ below — set it aside and haven’t picked it up. Hrm. I’ll get back on it here!

By: lori

lori — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:52:54 +0000

good luck with this project. it’s gorgeous. i was hoping to make it at one point and gave up on it due to the yarn weight (it would be so much more reasonable in a light worsted or dk IMO). if it weren’t for the cables i would suggest doubling Cascade 220 or something like that.

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:00:46 +0000

Isn’t the Booger teeny? You will probably want it smaller than the smallest size.

Try swatching that melon coloured All Seasons Cotton you have…

By: marti

marti — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:08:07 +0000

what vanessa says, and go with comment #1 suggestion on yarn. aren’t you glad you did swatch?

By: CarolineF

CarolineF — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:43:14 +0000

If it were me, I’d buy yarn I liked and knit a bigger size. I hate how all her beautiful gorgeous designs are knitted on size 9. Who needs a polar weight sweater anymore??

By: vanessa

vanessa — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:08:54 +0000

send the rest of the yarn back.

By: gina

gina — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:59:46 +0000

Aren’t you glad you swatched? Same thing happened to me with Patons SWS. Worsted weight, pretty colourways, soysilk in the blend; what could be better? Giant dreadlocks hanging off it after daughter wore it for one day. (To be fair, she did sleep in it, but still, dreadlocks!) Here’s a trick – knit, block, shave. I have hair clippers, so I use those, but any battery powered beard trimmer thingy will work. Not those so called sweater shaver things, they’re crap. After you’ve washed and blocked the sweater, but before it’s worn, take the clippers to it and shave off the bloom. You’ll only need to do it once and it is easy to do when the pieces are flat. Nice to hear from you again.

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:45:39 +0000

That swatch looks *terrible* after such a small amount of wear. It’d look awful in a sweater, I can just tell.

I found the pattern and they’re calling for an aran/fisherman weight yarn – 4sts/in. A little poking around on the website I’ve been drooling over turned up this: Beaverslide Dry Goods – it’s their Fisherman weight yarn, the right gauge. Depending on what size sweater you’re making, you could get away with as few as six skeins of that – lots cheaper and much nicer than the Cleckheaton stuff. They’ve got some colors on sale, too, so it’d be even less.

Shoot, now I’m going to have to go buy some yarn.

Nice to see you posting again, by the way!