A Sweater and the Census
So I started to knit Pioneer, in black and red cascade 220 that I picked up nearly two years ago at Knitty City. I think the only alteration I will be making to the project is to make it longer sleeves, here’s hoping I have enough yarn to cover my torso. So far it is going well.
I really like the effect of the yarn over increases. And that was the yarn right after adding a second ball. I have six of the cascade.
So that picture was two weeks ago, I moved the sweater to a longer cable and realized how scrunched it was. Oddly enough it fit pretty well in the front and was off by about 4″ in the back. So on Sunday as a friend drove me to the Tanger outlets in honor of my NEW JOB, and as thanks for helping her pack her apartment for a move I frogged the whole thing. I started it again and have been knitting non-stop pretty much the last two days of Census training knitting as I was talked at.
I am working on the Small instead of the Med but now I wonder if I don’t have the same problem anyway. I’m going to measure the back and see. You’d think a top down Raglan would be easier than this. But it is the first sweater. So I suppose if I didn’t frog it at least once it would be unnatural.
But even as I hit the sweater wall, I am making some progress on the Big 12 project and have swatched a possible stitch for the Hades’ Cowl.
