The good news is he's in Medicine Hat, so I'll have 4 hours each way to knit. I'm working on a second pair of mittens with the Estelle Alpaca Cashmere Tweed.
I'm following the suggestion of wiser women (Cynthia from RCY and the Yarn Harlot) and wrapping my working yarn around a third finger to tighten up my tension. It's working beautifully, but perhaps a bit too well; it seems so much more difficult to move the stitches. Could be that I just need to get used to it. Tight knitting is so foreign. I'm a little worried about some of the UFOs that linger around me. To shamelessly plageurize the Yarn Harlot for a moment, I'll have to revert back to my "drunk howler monkey on smack" knitting method to complete those. (She so gets us, doesn't she?)
I'll also bring the Yellow Harvest mittens that I've been battling. They appeared in the Fall 08 issue of Vogue Knitting. The first chart for this mitten contains challenging elements that have so far gotten the best of me. But I soldier on! And I'll probably bring the front of the Juliaca sweater. If I can get the cabled rib at the bottom completed then I can blindly knit miles and miles of 2x2 rib. Since there'll be 4 of us in 1 vehicle, anything too complicated would be folly.
More pictures soon...
3 comments:
If it's working too well, and things are too tight, try wrapping it around a little less. Maybe around wrap around instead of two? One less point of contact should loosen you a little.
The best way to tighten tension is still to push the stitches close together with your left hand - and work with all the stitches close to each other. It decreases the amount of yarn between the stitches and makes them smaller.
Good luck!
(Ps. The howler monkey thing is always an option.)
Thanks. I'll try that.
Ya-a-a-ay, sista, and it is gorgeous. Mary is so lucky. LP
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