c/o 70sts

28/4/15: swatched and cast on provisional, knit maybe 8 rows. I started on 5mm needles but didn’t like the fabric, so I just switched to 4.5mm.

29/4/15: Finished up to 17 inches, phew!

Harriot and Thistle together were not the best choice because the Harriot is definitely closer to dk while the Thistle is a real worsted, but I’m so in love with the color combination that I just don’t really care. If I had any lace weight alpaca to hold with the Harriot I would definitely have done that. Oh well.

22/7/15: Sat for a couple months waiting on ends to be woven, blocking, and grafting. Lord, there’s so many ends… Also, I learned a week ago that there’s a Herriot Greater, aka worsted weight Herriot. Which would have been the same weight as the Thistle. OF COURSE I learn this after I finish knitting the freakin’ thing and I’m browsing the bulky section of my LYS. They even had the same color I used in DK… Sigh.

17/11/15: GRAFTING!!!! I was one stitch short on the provisional cast on side (because half stitches on the ends?, so I had to spend an hour inventing (unventing? reinventing?) how to create a brand new stitch onto a knitting needle using a tapestry needle. @_@ Do not recommend. If there’s a tutorial for that, for hte love of god please let me know. So that’s done and now I’m grafting. Ding.

What I learned: Slip stitch jogless jog, which doesn’t work 100% on the 2row x 1 row sections of striping, because obviously the 1-row stripe can’t be slipped on row 2. I suspect this weaving method of jogless striping would have worked really well had I been willing to cut the yarn on every stripe (rather than on every block), which I’m not because then I’d have to weave 3x as many ends. It’s not worth the effort when I can carry the yarn over the skinny stripes and pretend not to be bothered by the jog, lol.