Ella’s Sweater Errata
Here are a couple of changes to the largest size of Ella’s sweater in case you bought an early copy of the pattern.
Back/Front: When casting on for the largest size, cast on 122 sts, not 120.
At the end of the baby cable ruffle on the back/front do the following for Row 11: K2, *(K2tog, P2tog), repeat from * until 4 sts remain. K2tog, K2.
Go See Gustafer Yellowgold!
Just to give you a heads up so you can mark it on your calendar, December 9th at 4:30 pm, Gustafer Yellowgold will be playing at the Florence Civic Center. If you live anywhere close to the Pioneer Valley, go check them out. They’re great and not like anyone else out there. Yes the music is geared toward kids. But I recently ran into someone at the Austin City Limits Festival wearing a Gustafer shirt who gushed about them. Go see them. Do it.
Too Much Yarn, or Lots of Choices; You decide
Yesterday I spent a lot of time getting my stash up on Ravelry. Holy cow! I thought I might have a fair amount of yarn, but it’s a little more than I thought. I’ve started listening to Stash & Burn and really only had their numbers to go by. One said they had over 30,000 yards of yarn, the other over 60,000 yards. Well I have just over 50,000 yards, not including my partial skeins or the yarn in my current projects. This is coming from 239 skeins of yarn.
I have it in my head that I really want to buy 2 balls of Quiviet at Rhinebeck next year. Yes, these can be $80/ball. So I thought I’d set a goal to meet before I bought these two balls of uber-expensive yarn. Do I go by the amount of space that the yarn takes up, number of balls, or number of yards. If I was going to go by the space it takes up, I’d would love to fit in the boxes above my sewing cabinet again. The yarn has spilled over into my sewing cabinet (really that should just be for my fabric and beads), above the shelves in the office, and a big basket in the living room.
If I go by yardage…how much would be reasonable? 20% sounds reasonable. So that would be mean that I need to knit 10,000 yards of yarn by next October. That seems like a lot.
If I go by skeins…that would be almost 50 skeins. Of course this doesn’t include any yarn I might purchase in the next year. Who knows what amazing new closeout or yarn is around the corner. The Malabrigo Silky Merino that came in today seems like a yarn that I really need.
A fair amount of my yarn is either fingering or laceweight. That would take up much more time to knit up. So I think going by volume or skeins makes the most sense to me.
