New project

The yarn gods smiled on me today and delivered my anxiously-awaited box of yarn I ordered on Valentine's Day. 13 balls of "Wool of the Andes" yarn in camel heather and two in claret heather. A khaki tan and plummy purple color. The pattern for this yarn I downloaded and printed off a week ago. A Kimono wrap cardigan. This will be my first sweater I have ever made. I have been knitting for several years and have done several projects, all diverse in difficulty and this will definitely be the biggest project I've attempted!

First things first, maing a swatch. Something I don't normally do but very important when knitting such a large project. Gauge helps to determine the proper size of needles and in turn, the proper sizing of the object to be knitted. When making a purse, blanket, or scarf, it isn't always necessary to swatch because these items don't need to "fit" a certain size.

So I pulled the first ball of tan yarn from my box and cast on to make my swatch....no go. The size seven needles the pattern suggests are too small for my too tight knittin. Ripped that out, grabbed some size eight needles and cast on again...no again. Still too tight and not quite four inches as it should be. Rip...grab size nine needles...and cast on again...finally success! A four inch square!

Tomorrow morning I head to the store to get a longer pair of needles since I have to cast on over 100 stitches and the only pair of needles I have are only six inches long. So far so good I think. We shall see. I will be posting my progress as I continue this process! Wish me luck!

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Pictures of my yarn and swatch I made.

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