New Lace Pullover
Saturday, August 21st, 2010Ever have a project that you quit about an hour into starting it?
Well I do.
I have a weakness for lacy tops. Now that my Botanical Lace Cardi is complete, I felt a little at loss for what lace top I should start.
In March of 2009, I swatched for the Lattice Lace Pullover:
Which will, of course, grow up to be this lovely pullover from Knit So Fine:

From Laarag's Photostream
Then after that?? Nothing. Nada. All I knew that size 1.5 needles was the size that gave me gauge. I moved on to other projects.
But the last Sunday, I just randomly picked it back up and started the project properly this time, starting with the sleeves.
I’m knitting this with size 2s even if I don’t get gauge with it. I did the math and knitting this with size 2s, making the 36′ size will fit me accurately. (How did I get to this conclusion? This here calculation that has helped me every time.
My wise buddy Steph told me about it and I feel every knitter should commit it to memory)
Sure, I got gauge with size 1.5s but it was a little too tight, for my liking and, of course, 3s were too loose for me. Size 2s make for a nice happy medium.
And speaking of Steph, the two of us went to welcome a new yarn shop to town, Looped Yarn Works in Dupont Circle. What a lovely store! It opened just the week the two of us got paid so, the proper thing to do was go and spend some hard earned bread there, right? I always appreciate it when yarn shops have sweaters-worth of a given yarn in a variety of colors and Looped certainly did that. It was very tempting
But I already started a project with some Koigu KPPPM I bought there:
I seem to be starting a lot of socks too. Pretty typical now that the December holidays are approaching ![]()





























