Oh well, thus ends that project. The recipient is as pissed as I was about the dyelot issue, and plans to return the yarn.

Bah fangool!

See that line in today's picture. I thought it was just a crease. I'm looking and the #$(&% gave us different dyelots. I specifically asked her to check. (This brand of yarn doesn't have any labels on the skeins. She took the yarn outside and looked at it in the sun. She said it all came from the same order so it should be the same. )

Shit. I basically have to frog all of that and try to figure out how many dyelots I have at home and how I want to handle this. (Bloody yarn store is 120 miles away.)

A morning's worth if knitting, wasted, if not more. (If the preceding two balls are the "off" dyelot, then I basically have to start all over.)

Day 4, Ball 3

I'm making progress, but it's slower than I'd like.

This isn't really a proper aran, so I'm mentally planning how I would change it were I to make it again. It definitely needs a center panel, and other aran elements, and I'd probably do it in the round.

Day 3

I didn't make much progress. For one thing, it's miserably hot in the Northeast, and I've just been tired; it was still light out when I went to bed last night. So I've only added maybe another 3 inches.

Day 2 - on my second ball of yarn.

(I'm counting Sunday as Day 0, since I didn't get much done but casting on & beginning the latticework.)

A while ago I promised to put up a picture of that red cashmere sweater, so here goes:

Well, I haven't blogged here in a while.

I'm starting a new sweater, by request. And since I now have a crapcam on my cell phone, I figured I might as well document it.

This is a day's worth of work. I cast on yesterday morning, but I was doing a lot of driving yesterday, so I didn't have time to sit & knit. Once I start the regular commute, I will get it done more quickly.









And here's a closeup with a little more detail.