I did it. I cut the sweater at the top of the ribbing and I am reknitting the part riddled with mistakes.
Then I will cut the section to be removed and graft the new bottom.
Kelvin has been investigating and is now guarding the injured pieces. He and Piper have been keeping me company during the recent long knitting sessions. What would life be without kitties?
I am going crazy doing knitting math and making charts for my sweater in progress. Between some small but important charting mistakes and a major snafu in
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the knitting of the snowflake pattern in the lower body of the pullover, it has become clear that I will have to do major surgery on this baby. :( 
Removing fifty rounds of 340 stitches each in two colors, reknitting them and then graft the last round to the upper part of the sweater will be painful. Very painful. Send chocolate.
I am working on the second sleeve of my sweater and excited about getting close to when I can put all my “tubes” together and start
the yoke. This sweater marks many firsts for me: first sweater in the round, first seamless yoke construction, first stranded sweater, first attempt at designing
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a pattern. Too ambitious? Most likely, but I am learning so much in the process that it’ll be ok, however it turns out. 
Several years ago I did start a stranded color project, another pullover, that never got finished. This one will. I am figuring things out as I go, so it’s taking a long time, and knitting at a gauge of 8.5 spi is not speeding things up either. Some things never change.
Supervised knitting
Slow progress, but in good company.
Kelvin likes a good knitting session.
It means I am not moving around much.
Organizing my swatches
mittens. Instead, I practiced enough to knit almost one glove and as soon as I had the base of the thumb in place and could try it on, realized that it’s uncomfortable and I will forever stick to the less elegant side thumbs, or whatever they are called. If I knit a Selbu glove, it’ll be a bastard version with a side thumb.
Test to learn the Norwegian glove construction
Norwegian thumb
Learning to knit with DPN
Two kinds of Herringbone stitch (front)
Two kinds of Herringbone stitch (back)
The 2-ply Hebridean I ordered from Virtual Yarns got here yesterday; it only took 39 days. Apparently the US government have imposed new regulations that cause shipments over a certain weight to undergo extra checks, so now parcels by Air Mail from the UK to California take about six weeks to be delivered. Curses.
2-ply Hebridean (Virtual Yarns)
lost the urge to knit hats given that spring is upon us in Los Angeles and Ben already got his hat in a different yarn. In the meantime, I found some yarns I’d never tried and bought a skein of Madelinetosh, two skeins of Spinni (Isager Strik) and one Lace Ball. The beauty of the yarn blinded me to the fact that they are all singles and I should have known better because I hate knitting with singles. Spinni is absolutely gorgeous and I have to find a way to use it, diagonal bias or not. This is not a yarn I want to hide in the closet and forget about.
Isager Spinni
The larger swatch was worked with two strands and the diagonal bias is much more pronounced.
Most of the things I am currently intrigued by originate either in Scandinavia, the Baltic countries, or other subarctic areas such as Iceland and the Shetland islands. Considering the smörgåsbord of languages spoken across those areas, Swedish seems my best starting point to attempt a language attack, as it has the largest number of native speakers and is widely understood throughout Norway, Denmark, and even Finland. In the past year I have read many books by Henning Mankell (all the Kurt Wallander novels available in English) and the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson. Not that I plan to read novels in Swedish any time soon, but I often wish that I could read Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish blogs and last
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year, when Julekuler came out and all the Scandinavians on Ravelry were knitting those cute Christmas tree decorations, I was left salivating. They tell me that Julekuler is being translated into English and will be published in the US in July of this year. Guess what I’ll be knitting this summer? And every time a new Marianne Isager book is published, it takes at least a couple of years for the English version to follow. For Strik a la carte it took a lot longer than that. What’s an Italian/English speaking knitter to do?
Strik a la carte (2004), by Marianne Isager. Republished in English as Classic Knits in 2009.
Ene's scarf knit with 2-ply Jade Sapphire Mongolian Cashmere, colour Deep Denim.
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Out of so many new patterns I picked Caller Herrin, a beautiful hat inspired by the colors of Britain’s North-Sea coast. Not having any 2-ply Hebridean handy, I used some KnitPicks Palette. Not quite the same, but if you want to do something NOW, you don’t want to wait
around for your yarn to arrive form the Isle of Lewis. My order shipped promptly on Jan 11, but no matter how much I stalk the mailman, there is still no sign of it and unfortunately no tracking number. In the meantime, Ben is wearing his hat knit with non-Scottish colors. I am not loving the Palette yarn, but I’ve been using it a lot for swatches and the hat is not bad. When my 2-ply Hebridean gets here (when, oh when?) I’ll probably do something different with it than I had originally in mind.
Caller Herrin for Ben
I am playing with Holst Garn Supersoft, a Danish yarn that comes in beautiful heather hues and fingering weight.
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two years since I had knit anything, and a lot longer since I’d made a pair of gloves, but after seeing what he bought online I figured I could do a better job. So I rummaged through my stash, found some tweedy cashmere from Colourmart, took measurements and cast on. And I kept taking measurements of Ben’s hand and fingers as I went along, just to be on the safe side. What’s the point of custom knitting if it’s not perfect? The result was a pair of fingerless gloves that fit perfectly. Until I washed them. In my enthusiasm I forgot that cashmere doesn’t act like wool so now Ben has oversized gloves. I’ll do better next time. At least the little finger starts lower than the other fingers, unlike the pair he got on Amazon.com. The other unforeseen consequence of this quick project is that I got the knitting bug again, big time. I had stopped knitting because of repetitive stress injuries when things got so bad that I couldn’t knit for more than five minutes at a time. Not being able to knit was depressing and along the way I stopped checking my friends’ knitting blogs, Ravelry, and anything knitting altogether. But those gloves brought me back and this time I’ll watch out for signs of injury to my arm and do my best to prevent problems because I don’t want to quit again. Knitting is relaxing and beautiful and energizing and even the cats are excited that we have yarn around the house once more. More posts about knitting in the next couple of days. Right now I am trying out WordPress and hope it doesn’t mess up with the old posts, which were created in Movable Type and then archived as a static site when I stopped blogging. Back to swatching.
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