Rudder was able to come home on an earlier flight; he got in late Saturday afternoon. Apparently having him around after a week alone is distracting; Before I left for the airport Saturday, I began making this from this. (New skill: provisional cast-on - which looks way cool when you start with a plain cream colored yarn then knit a multicolored yarn into it. I maybe have to do that sometime on purpose for an edging, and not pull out the crochet chain that begins it.) Of course when I joined the yarn, I checked to make sure I didn't twist it. I checked several times. I even checked as I was knitting it. By last night I'd gotten a couple of inches into the sweater, and done 6 out of 10 or so increase rows. ("Or so" because I'm adapting to a different gauge than the one in the pattern, and since it's top down, I'll be able to try it on as I go. I took one more look at it - and found that somehow it was twisted, and instead of the neck of a sweater what I had instead was a Moebius strip.
I can only conclude that either Rudder's impending and then actual presence was even more distracting than I had thought, or else the Sweater Pixies have come to my house to play mischievous tricks on me. At least, since I have to redo my work, it's a very nice yarn to knit with - Artful Yarns Candy, in a color that's mostly blue with threads of orange and green. I have only four balls; I'm knitting the second size up which calls for five, but then I'm getting 19 instead of 22 stitches per inch. Also, judging by her picture in the sweater's pattern (and mine from yesterday), I will need considerably less yarn for the, er, top half od the body.
Posted by dichroic at June 5, 2006 01:33 PM