I told a fib. I did not cast on for tons of exciting new project last Monday. I discovered that my Kentucky Blue Broadripples (as I have now dubbed them) were so close to completion that it seemed prudent (ugh.. I dislike that word) to finish them off first. Which I did… kinda.
Now I need to buckle down and finish weaving in the ends (all 10 of them – I hate knots!!!) so they can count for SAM2.
I believe I also said something about cutting back on dishcloth knitting…
Yeah, not happening either. You should recognize the Garterlac. The other is a Bauhaus cloth. I liked the look of the dishcloth posted by Lion Brand recently, but if you follow the pattern as given you end up with just ribbing! The cloth in the photo looks more complicated than that. I don’t really remember much about the Bauhaus school of design from university, but the article accompanying the pattern mentions squares. So I examined the photo and made notes of how it looked to me. This is what I came up with:
Cast on 48 stitches
Rows 1-6: (k4, p4) across
Rows 7-10: (p8, k8) across
Repeat rows 1-10 until the required length
Bind off
Simple enough, eh? If you like smaller cloths (like me), cast on 36 stitches and change it from multiples of 4 to multiples of 3 (k3, p3, etc).
Other than the next pair of Broadripples, I haven’t cast on for anything new recently. I got as far as winding yarn for two new pairs of socks but kept running into imperfections in the yarn.
1. A knot and a slub, 2. Moda Dea Sassy Stripes – 6 knots, 3. Knit Picks Simple Stripes – bad nylon
The Simple Stripes nylon thing is toward the end of the skein, so I might not even need that bit, but six knots in two balls of Sassy Stripes?! I know these aren’t high quality yarns, but doesn’t anybody have standards anymore? Anyway, because of this I’ve lost interest in these socks for the time being.
The next thing on the agenda is a pair of much, much needed legwarmers. Not even these are coming easy. I’m using a Target kit which had all of the yarn (the pattern calls for two different yarns held together) on triangular cardboard rolls. No sweat, I thought, I’ll just wind it into balls. One went fine but the second yarn is slippery. Slippery yarns don’t wind well, not that I knew that. I ended up spending 2 hours untangling and winding it by hand. Of course, it was only after all this that I realized that achieving gauge with the needles they supplied would be pure fantasy… I’ll regroup and retry tonight. 
