Well, Saturday may be optimistic as a finish date, although I should finish it by Sunday or Monday. It’s just going more slowly than I had hoped, and I had to do some ripping today because — well — because sometimes reading directions is important.
I’m also not so sure I like my yarn choice for this project. The gauge is 4 1/2 stitches to the inch, and I picked Jo Sharp’s Silk Road Aran Tweed. It’s a nice yarn, but slubbier than I expected from looking at it in the skein. It gets very thick and thin and the “tweed” sometimes manifests itself in blobs of color that look as if they might pill. There is also a fair amount of “roughage” left in the yarn: bits of straw and other detritus. On one hand, that’s okay. It gives the knitting a kind of rough hewn effect that suits the pattern. However, it does cause certain aspects of the cabling, especially where you start the infinite cables, to look very muddy. I am not getting clean, crisp cabling. A smoother yarn might have produced a nicer effect. We’ll see.
I am really bummed about your yarn, especially since I picked it out! Maybe, like me, you can plan a second Rogue. I will use a coarser yarn and you can use smoother!
Comment by Susan — March 22, 2006 @ 9:31 am
Looking at your previous post (with the pics) I think the cable definition is great.
Comment by Susan — March 22, 2006 @ 4:56 pm