Not Quite Ready

Over Memorial Day, I received Barbara Walker’s Learn-to-Knit-Afghan Book from Johanna. I’m STILL contemplating yarns for the afghan. I’m not making a final decision until I check out one more superwash worsted wool. We figured out the dimensions of the final afghan if we used worsted weight yarn, and this thing is going to be huge. So I might consider a DK weight yarn instead since huge is not what I’m looking for. Something for the sofa is really what I want. But how would I figure out the amount of yarn I would need. The book calls for 80 oz of worsted weight yarn. What would be the equivalent yardage in DK weight?

I know I’m not going to treat this thing gently and would ideally like to be able to machine wash it. So just for fun, I threw in one of my Cascade220 swatches into our front loader just to see what would happen.

Yep, it felts. But even though you lost a lot of stitch definition, there was still enough there to be interesting. And so many of the squares in the afghan are high contrast two color pieces, I suppose those would look kind of interesting too. I also liked the feel of the felted swatch. Maybe I could make a washable DK afghan at the same time I’m making a Cascade 220 afghan, one for cooler weather, one for freezing weather. I’m also curious how the squares would felt together, since there are so many different sorts of stitch patterns. Would it get all wonky? Or could that be interesting in its own way?

And then of course there is the color issue. The book calls for four colors, two light and two dark. But really, I could do anything I want to do. I’ve been loving watching the progress of these two creations. The greens are working for me.

Hmm, decisions, decisions. At any rate, Johanna and I are starting our afghans mid-July when we’re at the beach together.

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