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Greensleeves

Posted on | February 23, 2007 | 9 Comments

I’m knitting my Rambling Rose sleeves in a race against time.  Otherwise known as knit faster so you don’t run out of yarn. 

When I started this sleeve, I had eight balls of yarn left.  My goal/hope/wish/desire is that each sleeve will take no more than two balls of yarn, leaving four balls for the yoke, neck and button bands.  I might be fooling myself.  I considered making the sleeves three-quarter length, but this is what they’d look like:

See how the scallops bunch up?  They look even worse when my elbow’s fully bent.  So I’m barrelling ahead full-steam.  I think the yoke is about five inches deep and most of that incorporates decreases so SURELY I’ll have enough yarn.  Right?  I mean, the worst case scenario is that I don’t have enough yarn, have to rip back the yoke and reknit the sleeves.  And I’m okay with that.  At least right now, I’m okay with that.  When I started knitting this sweater, I told myself I wanted to have it finished to take to the beach in June.  Even if I have to knit over a third of it twice, I’ll still have it done by June.

Meanwhile, remember this?

It’s now this:

6 oz., 420 yards, 85% wool, 15% mohair and 100% squishy.  I love it!!!  I threw in some brown while spinning the first bobbin, thinking I’d do the same on the second bobbin but then I decided to go for more subtle striping and temper the brown with the green and I am really digging it.  It’s a color of yarn I probably wouldn’t buy if I saw it in the LYS but since it’s my creation, I just think it’s fabulous!  Here’s a close-up for your eye candy friday.

What the heck, here’s another.

It reminds me of the woods in springtime. 

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