my needles have been flyin' - not necessarily with knitin' but with froggin'. seems that the yarn that i am determined (never come between a knitter and her yarn!) to be using at this time has not been as cooperative as i would like! i can't blame it all on the yarn, i must take some of the blame for my apparent stupidity (like not checking exactly how much yarn was required for the project and how much i actually had in my stash!). so after knitting about two inches of the sweater with one ball of yarn, the light bulb goes on and i decide that it might be wise to check my stash and see exactly how much of this yarn i have available (and, at the same time check the pattern for the yardage needed - i can be sooooo dense sometimes!). after digging around, it took just a few seconds for me to see that this would not be a happnin' sweater with this yarn! arghhhhh!
so, where is this leading? well, i must tell you about ravelry.com (if you are a knitter, you must sign up for THIS website). i am lovin' it!! since i was a few balls short of being able to knit the aforementioned sweater i trotted on over to the yarn tab and entered the name of my yarn and "presto", just like that i had a gazillion examples of items made with that yarn. after sorting through a ton of wash clothes (what is it with all of those knitted wash clothes?), i found several sweater (or jumpers as the english refer to them) ideas that would accommodate my ball count.
soooo...off i go on my new adventure in knitting! oh boy!!! i'm happy now!
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