Did Somebody say “Swatch”?
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:12 am (uncategorized)
Speaking of swatches (yes, we were just yesterday). I recently knit a few.
Nevermind the hideous green towel underneath. This is three swatches of the purple yarn I’ve been spinning. Estes Park has a handspun yarn contest and has different classes you can enter your yarn into. One of those is a project swatch section.
I knit these swatches thinking I’d enter that category in the competition. The swatch needed to be 6" x 6" ; and only one of them qualifies. The other two I stopped knitting before I even got that far. The purple yarn is super soft, and therefore lacks any kind of defintion knit up. The picture here isn’t the best (sorry) but you can see how you can’t see anything at all. The swatch on the right? It’s got cables in it. Really. Would I lie?
Ended up I didn’t like any of the swatches enough to entere it in that category, so I just put a whole big ole skein in. I didn’t win, but my score was pretty good. Phooey on the judge that circled my gauge of 5 stitches to the inch and put a question mark next to it as if in disbelief. Did she knit the swatches? No. I did. and I measured them. Guess she didnt’ believe me.
