after a bit of procrastinating, I finally started my “Thing” (aka the sweater sampler from J. Fee’s book). After digging thru the box o’ misc. yarn received from ebay, I decided to use a bright pink yarn (it feels like acrylic) as my main yarn, with a light brown yarn (that is also unidentified at this point). It’s a very ebay project - the needles I’m using (Boye 16″ Size 8) were also won off ebay. The book (2nd ed. spiral bound), alas, was not won on ebay, but bought from overstock.com.
Like many others, I was unable to make the ends meet, and cast on 80 sts. I’m not a big fan of purling (I still haven’t sorted out my tension issues - maybe by the end of this…), so the garter beginning annoyed me a bit but actually looks ok. Stockinette was a breeze. I’m a few rows into the 1×1 ribbing section, and I have a few wonky stitches from not paying attention to my tension, so some of the knits are kind of loose. Hopefully that’ll get sorted by the end. I’d blame it on tinking (I accidently knit 2 in a row somewhere on the 2nd half), but it’s in the beginning of the round as well…
Day 1 Progress pic:
