{"id":165,"date":"2005-11-01T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knitupload.wordpress.com\/2005\/11\/01\/i-need-to-win-the-lottery\/"},"modified":"2005-11-01T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-01T21:35:00","slug":"i-need-to-win-the-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"I need to win the lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Now, to distract you from my bad Jersey hair, I will show you some current knitting. To the left you can see my Dublin Bay socks<\/a> (warning: this link goes to a PDF) being made out of Cherry Tree Hill Supersock in the Birch colorway. Thankfully, this is a relatively easy pattern to follow without having to pull out the pattern everytime I want to work on them. Unfortunately, I realized over the weekend that I’m in a DPN funk. Two sock projects going at the same time… all those DPNs. *ugh* I just wanted to knit something that required even less thought… something with just straight knitting that doesn’t require changing needles every 24 stitches.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Something like this (psst, over there on the right). This is a quick improvised hat for me out of Lana Gatto Feeling (70% merino, 20% silk, 10% cashmere). I went to my LYS on Saturday without even bringing knitting with me. A few Tootsie Rolls later I found myself fondling this yarn and wondering what I could make with it. My Lavendar Twist hat<\/a> is really nice, but if I have to wear it for long periods of time the mohair makes my forehead itch. A softer hat… a hat with cashmere… would make so much more sense. So, after swatching I cast on and got four inches into it before I realized that my gauge swatch had lied to me (gauge swatch: 5 sts\/inch, actual hat: 6 sts\/inch — just a little bit of a different on the order of 3.5 inches). Out came the needles, rip went the knitting, cast back on went the yarn. It’s quite nice to knit; it rivals the Bouton d’Or Ksar I used last year. The one problem with this hat is I keep imagining what I nice sweater would be like out of this yarn. I come to my sense each time when I think 6 sts\/inch… would need about 2200 yards of yarn… 153 yards per ball… $15.50 a ball… *choke* Maybe it’s time to buy another lotto ticket. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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