I promised myself I'd get started on Rogue, the sweater I've been yearning for since March. I used my brand new swift and ball winder (which I love!) to turn my kilo of yarn from Ireland into a tower of five center-pull balls. The yarn is really vibrant red. My camera phone doesn't do it justice.
My sweetie is working today, so I had some time to do some knitting. I've never done cables before, so Rogue has me a bit intimidated. But I tried the cable chart out on some waste yarn, and it didn't go too horribly. Here's how it came out. I had some funky stuff happen at the start, but then I seemed to figure things out. We'll see how it goes with the red stuff.
In case you've never seen Rogue, you can find it here: www.girlfromauntie.com. The patterns are incredible. I bought the red yarn in March when we took a trip to Ireland. Sheep everywhere, but apparently, very little yarn. What gives?
I looked for yarn (which they called knitting wool) everywhere we went. I only saw one yarn shop in all the places we visited, and it was a Sunday, so it was closed. Various woolen mills, little towns, bigger villages, small cities, no luck. Finally, the last place we stayed there was an outlet for one of the woolen mills. They had tons of sweaters and all sorts of souvenirs. We were about to leave when I asked the very nice woman behind the counter if they had any knitting wool. She pulled a huge cardboard box out from beneath a window, and it was full of red and black yarns, packaged in kilo bags. That's 2.2 pounds of aran-weight yarn. And it was only about 25 euros ($40). I figure it's between 1,800 and 2,000 yards of yarn, plenty for a sweater!
I had only been knitting a few months when I bought the yarn, and all the sweater patterns I could tackle were pretty boring. So I held out, and am ready to swatch for Rogue. Wish me luck!
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