In which there is much cursing

Yes, I wound the handspun, and yes, I cast on the toe.



Yes, I did a little swatching (also read as: I cast on and started the sleeve) for the first Mexicali sweater.



To be fair, the swatching for the Mexicali was actually necessary, as the pattern calls for size 4 needles, and the smallest non-dpns I have are 5s. I have dpns in 2 and 3, but not 4. It is possible that I have straights in 4s, but not likely and I find straight needles incredibly inconvenient, so I'm not even going to bother checking. So far, it looks like the 5s are going to work out just fine.

Now, about the sock. I cast on the toe because I wanted to see how hard it was. Okay, and because I couldn't resist handling the 70% Alpaca/30% Angora I bought for the toes/heels/cuffs to ensure I have enough sock to cover my feet. And now we come to the flaw in the great Toe-Up Plan of Aught Six. You remember I was all cocky because I had figured out that I should do toe-up socks in case of yarn shortage, right. Well, I realized this morning that I have no way to know how long to make the first sock. Insert expletive here. Then I realized something else. The reason I wound the handpaint into a ball was so I could do a gauge swatch. But I've cast on the toe. This means that all of my needles are, well, occupied. Insert string of expletives here.

Progress continues on Sam and Wild Baby. WB should be done this weekend, and so should at least one of Sam's fronts. I'm not allowing myself to work on the sock any more until I've finished these three baby sweaters.

Well, maybe just a little swatch...

posted by Laura Y. @ 4:48 PM