I have to wait until I do laundry again to wash more swatches for Anouk, and I have to block all the pieces of the orange cabled hoodie before I can knit the hood. Hm. Am I allowed to swatch for something new if I’m stuck on my current projects? Or should I be a good little knitter and work on something I haven’t picked up in a while?
Maybe I could re-swatch for something old…
I have an old (and when I say old, I’m talking at least 4 or 5 years, although heaven knows it’s not my oldest unfinished project) blanket poncho that I started knitting back in my pre-swatching days. Of course, size shouldn’t matter quite so much for a blanket poncho, unless your gauge is so far off you realize before you’re even halfway through that you’re going to run out of yarn, and finding the same dye lot is no longer possible, because as with all projects you start, the yarn was purchased long before the actual knitting commenced.
Anyway. I’m thinking that this would be a good thing to have for the fall, considering that none of my jackets or coats are even going to come close to fitting me, so I’ve been contemplating ripping out what I had done and starting again. This time, though, I think I’ll swatch!
(Oh, and this was my first ever cable project, and it has bobbles, and did I mention that it has lots of cables? Why, oh, why didn’t I swatch?!?)