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<\/p>\nMy son-in-law liked the sweater I made for Charley enough that he asked me to make a replacement for a favorite (but now threadbare, dirty, and moth-eaten) sweater of his. I bought yarn two days ago, Peer Gynt DK weight wool from Norway, at Puttin’ On the Knitz in West Newton, and did a swatch last night. I’m thinking sort of Norwegian ski sweater, navy, light gray, and a little red. Number 5 needles came out just a little too small a gauge; I’ll try again with 6s.
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(Friday morning: I did another swatch, on 6s, between Thursday evening and Friday morning. It seems to be just about the same gauge. Maybe the reason is that I didn’t do normal Fair Isle carrying the yarn back to the other edge, but tried knitting left-handed back the other way. It was slow, about 1\/3 the speed of regular knitting, because I haven’t practiced it, but I can do it (holding both colors?! Just to establish that it’s possible). I’m going to figure that it wasn’t as accurate an indication of the gauge I’ll get with that size needle as the first swatch, but at least shows that 6s won’t give me an extremely different gauge. I guess I’ll do the project on 6s.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My son-in-law liked the sweater I made for Charley enough that he asked me to make a replacement for a favorite (but now threadbare, dirty, and moth-eaten) sweater of his. I bought yarn two days ago, Peer Gynt DK weight wool from Norway, at Puttin’ On the Knitz in West Newton, and did a swatch … <\/p>\n