oh my, what a mess...
!!AIYA!!
so my half finished mermaid, my joy and accomplishment for the last little while, must be foresaken. i must rip it all back. when i reached the begining of the back center gusset, i got a little nervous... i only had maybe a third of a ball of the stripe color left. this couldn't be happening. hanne's kits are clearly advertised as having plenty of wool for the largest size and then some.
when i first started the kit (the very day it arrived of course) i started knitting up a gauge swatch of the main color double stranded on the given needle size.
why double stranded?? because the online retailer i bought it from said so.
did it say so in the instructions? no, but it did say "Yarn: No. 2 Shetland..." with the No 2 in bold. this being an english translation of danish instructions, i took this as a sign of the kit dealers project description. i still had my doubts however. my swatch was not knitting up to gauge and was a little more off than my swatches normally are. i ended up obtaining gauge by using needles a full mm smaller than given.
that's not a good sign, why'd you insist on double strands? well... because one of my kits (colorway 4) only included 2 colors. the same number of balls as the colorway 7, but only two colors. the mermaid takes 3 colors, and the third color (read> the missing color) was described as "Turquoise Mix," leading me to believe i was to use one strand of each color. and indeed in the pictures turquoise mix could be just that. but if i were to mix colors that would be two strands, and there was no way i was going to knit single stranded then double stranded for the stripes... that was just silly, so it must be a double strand pattern, just like the dealer had said...
well, after scrupulously double checking the blog photographs of other mermaid knitters (namely wendy of WendyKnits and sheila of nwkniterati) i noticed only single strands. i contacted the wonderful wendy and got a response i was not so eager to hear: single strands and looks like i'm missing a color. OUCH.
so my mum's beautiful mermaid will have to be frogged and rewound into balls (thank goodness i got a ball winder not too long ago) and i'll have to have a discussion with the company i bought the kit from, because they seem to have been confused about the pattern and contents. sigh, i hope this all goes well, and i don't cry too much while watching my beautiful work be diminished. looks like i won't be surprising my mum with the prized jacket until after the new year.
more later.
so my half finished mermaid, my joy and accomplishment for the last little while, must be foresaken. i must rip it all back. when i reached the begining of the back center gusset, i got a little nervous... i only had maybe a third of a ball of the stripe color left. this couldn't be happening. hanne's kits are clearly advertised as having plenty of wool for the largest size and then some.
when i first started the kit (the very day it arrived of course) i started knitting up a gauge swatch of the main color double stranded on the given needle size.
why double stranded?? because the online retailer i bought it from said so.
did it say so in the instructions? no, but it did say "Yarn: No. 2 Shetland..." with the No 2 in bold. this being an english translation of danish instructions, i took this as a sign of the kit dealers project description. i still had my doubts however. my swatch was not knitting up to gauge and was a little more off than my swatches normally are. i ended up obtaining gauge by using needles a full mm smaller than given.
that's not a good sign, why'd you insist on double strands? well... because one of my kits (colorway 4) only included 2 colors. the same number of balls as the colorway 7, but only two colors. the mermaid takes 3 colors, and the third color (read> the missing color) was described as "Turquoise Mix," leading me to believe i was to use one strand of each color. and indeed in the pictures turquoise mix could be just that. but if i were to mix colors that would be two strands, and there was no way i was going to knit single stranded then double stranded for the stripes... that was just silly, so it must be a double strand pattern, just like the dealer had said...
well, after scrupulously double checking the blog photographs of other mermaid knitters (namely wendy of WendyKnits and sheila of nwkniterati) i noticed only single strands. i contacted the wonderful wendy and got a response i was not so eager to hear: single strands and looks like i'm missing a color. OUCH.
so my mum's beautiful mermaid will have to be frogged and rewound into balls (thank goodness i got a ball winder not too long ago) and i'll have to have a discussion with the company i bought the kit from, because they seem to have been confused about the pattern and contents. sigh, i hope this all goes well, and i don't cry too much while watching my beautiful work be diminished. looks like i won't be surprising my mum with the prized jacket until after the new year.
more later.
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