Well, I actually kind of sort of maybe a little did a swatch-ish type thing before I started my pirates hat. I had the guage right on. And it STAYED right on, until I realized the problem was my circ's size (that sounds like a man's problem not a knitters, huh, but I digress...) and had to switch to a 16" instead of my 29". I thought is was going along well, and just seemed littler because it was next to that tiny size circ. Well, I may have been wrong.
Cathy noticed this last night at the knit-in and asked me about my guage. So I dragged out my handy dandy super duper guage-o-meter and lo and behold she was right. I had gone from 6st=1in to about 7.5st=1in. Now, someone else mentioned a good point, I'm nearing the top of the hat and it really shouldn't matter if its smaller because I will be decreasing soon anyway. Well, I hope they are right, because when I try to smash it onto my head on the needle, it seems very iffy that it will fit me. *cry*
Oh well - like I always say, my projects always have one monumental error - this time, as with others, its size...
I will put a pic up soon so you can see for yourself.
On to other news... I went to Mass Ave Knits again today to have my recycled yarned balled up. It was very exciting. I got two big balls out of it - I will post pics of that soon as well. (Charles still has my batteries in the X-Box controller... *grrr*)
I have another sweater almost picked apart, too. It was a striped sweater so that made things a little interesting lol. Oh, and I got two more skeins of Katia sock yarn on sale for $3/ea, and three patterns. One was FREE!!! Yup, a whole sock pattern book for free cuz it was really old and worn but idc about that lol. The other was a sock/mitten/hat set pattern and the last was a pattern book FULL of sweaters for kids. Did I mention that those two books were $1/ea????? :-) Happy Camper Am I. (And since I'm a picture junkie, I'll show it all to you soon.)
I feel like crap today, so I'm going to go try to finish my hat and watch tv.
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