My head hurts.
My yarn for Flair arrived - so I've knit up a swatch.It's enough to keep me from casting on right away. I need to stay focussed. 
I've also knit up a swatch of the wrap/shawl I'm knitting for the Tour de France kal (focus). 
We are allowed to swatch before the Tour de France commences so I knit this yesterday morning. The Tour was kicking off at 3pm GMT yesterday but as I was off in the land of nod at that time (2am Sunday morning NZ time) I didn't cast on. It's now 7pm Sunday evening and I still haven't cast on. Not a very good participant am I? I'm just not happy with the swatch though, I think my lace is too "loose". I don't have the next needle size down to knit another swatch so I took my sore head into my LYS today to see if I could have a look at the sample in the store and if necessary get some smaller needles.
When I arrived I asked one of the ladies working there if I could have a look at the shawl to see how my swatch looked against it - it wasn't on display. It wasn't in the store at all, apparently, they rotate samples around all their stores and my shawl's time was up in Welly, just my luck! I did get another knitters opinion though and she thought it looked fine but I decided to pick up some 2.75mm needles anyway and have decided to knit another swatch. Just not today.
Did I mention my head hurts? Lace might give you a sore head but really mine's just sore from last night's Synning.
Labels: Lace Wrap, New Zealand
posted by Sharon in Ireland/NZ at 7:00 PM
4 Comments:
Re: SynBar - you could always fashion a bikini from the shawl swatches! *g*
I have the pattern for that shawl as well, and want to knit that version from the pattern, but not until after my study finishes. Your swatch looks fine to me (AFA you can tell from a pic), but I'm probably with you and would try on smaller needles as well.
Stay warm :)
I think that the scarf that you're doing for the Tour is beautiful! I hope that we get to see some progress along the way. And I hope that you're able to find inspiration enough here to stay focused. ;) Go maillot a pois rouges!
I've come for a visit from the tdf knitalong and have to say - everything you knit is so gorgeous!
A warning - be careful with flair, from experience I know this, don't make it too big.
Your vest looks lovely and the swatches for the tdf knitalong look great too. Gorgeous colour. Lots of knitting to do!
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