Started Quidditch Sweater (with pics!)
So it has been a week since I got my yarn delivered, I already knit up my gauge swatch and I cast on the back and have knit almost 5 inches on it. I figured it was time to get out the digital camera and take some pictures to share with everyone. Let me say that I am loving the Wool of the Andes from Knit Picks, it knits up even softer than I had expected and I really love the colors. So here we go with some pictures:
Here we have all of the yarn, my swatch and the start of the back. It's a good match of the color in this image too.
Here are 2 shots of my gauge swatch. I added a stripe in the swatch to see how well the colors worked together because I wasn't all too thrilled with it at first. But seeing them knit together changed that, I love the combination. I also tried a K2P1 pattern at the top, but preferred the K2P2.
And here is the back of the sweater. I did 3 inches on smaller needles then switched to larger for the body.
And that is my Ravenclaw Quidditch Sweater to date!
As for other Harry Potter knitting... I am on the last main color panel of the Dumbledore Scarf. I should have that done this week. I started a book scarf, but it kinda got put aside. I'm sure I'll pick it up at some time. I will be starting 2 smaller sized Gryffindor SS/CoS style scarves. A friend of my mother's want to give them to her grandchildren so I said I would make them. They are 6 and 7 yos, so full sized scarves would be too big, so I plan to scale them down.
Here we have all of the yarn, my swatch and the start of the back. It's a good match of the color in this image too.
Here are 2 shots of my gauge swatch. I added a stripe in the swatch to see how well the colors worked together because I wasn't all too thrilled with it at first. But seeing them knit together changed that, I love the combination. I also tried a K2P1 pattern at the top, but preferred the K2P2.
And here is the back of the sweater. I did 3 inches on smaller needles then switched to larger for the body.
And that is my Ravenclaw Quidditch Sweater to date!
As for other Harry Potter knitting... I am on the last main color panel of the Dumbledore Scarf. I should have that done this week. I started a book scarf, but it kinda got put aside. I'm sure I'll pick it up at some time. I will be starting 2 smaller sized Gryffindor SS/CoS style scarves. A friend of my mother's want to give them to her grandchildren so I said I would make them. They are 6 and 7 yos, so full sized scarves would be too big, so I plan to scale them down.
posted by Vince @ 8/14/2005 11:15:00 PM
2 Comments:
At 10:42 AM,
Misty said…
Wow!! What great progress, and what a dedicated swatcher you are :P I only wish I was so much so.
I'm so jealous, I should have ordered my yarn online - I still don't have it! :)
At 12:21 AM,
Vince said…
Knit Picks took one week to deliver. I was very pleased considering it was no delivery charge. That kind of deal usually gets you slow mule train delivery...LOL!
Since I almost always need to adjust a pattern to fit me, swatching is a must. Plus more than once knitting a swatch has shown me that I could never knit a whole sweater in a particular pattern stitch, so I then move on to another sweater design. That happened with a sweater I saw in Knitter magazine. I loved the design so I knit a gauge swatch and it pratically sapped my will to live. I would never have been able to knit a completed sweater, so it was an idea best scraped at te very beginning.
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