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March 01, 2005
No Poncho Villa for me
Swatched the Big Kureyon. I'm not ready to take on a sweater yet (and frankly, between just you and me, I think a sweater in this stuff is a little too Pancho Villa for me. For some reason the self-striping reminds me of those horrid Mexican anoraks we all wore in college during the grunge period. God help us.) But I didn't want to make garter stitch out of this, stockinette is so purty and flat and shows off the nubbiness.
Of course, stockinette rolls, so that's out.
Then, coincidentally, I stopped in to A Major Knitwork to poke around in the stash (stated purpose: picking up some size 13 dpns for my hat project, since I am a crazy tight knitter and the size 11s gave me too many stitches per inch), and I saw a fancy schmancy basket weave scarf (checkerboard?) done in knit 5, purl 5. Went home and swatched it on the Noro Big Kureyon and ding! ding! we have a winner. I kept knitting directly on my scarf swatch, and now it's a scarf bottom. The corners roll in a tee tiny bit, but I can block-n-tackle that baby.
Roy gets into swatching the Noro Big Kureyon
Posted by laurie at March 1, 2005 04:53 PM
