{"id":630,"date":"2009-03-12T06:27:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T11:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=630"},"modified":"2009-03-12T06:27:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T11:27:05","slug":"one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"One Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recently, a friend of mine from work said, “Oh, did I tell you we are expecting another child? She is due in March.”<\/p>\n

Ok, not giving me a lot of time here! So I went on ravelry to see what yarns people were using for Baby Surprise Jackets. One of the yarns that I noticed was Jitterbug. I have a ton of Jitterbug!<\/p>\n

Then I thought, “You know, I could do that baby sweater from Knitter’s Almanac, since they are expecting a girl.” And thus, this project was conceived.<\/p>\n

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The colorway is Moss and it took a little over a week to knit. I would have taken less if I hadn’t started out with some gawd-awful bamboo that were a pain in the neck (and parts lower) to work with. I got a set of Addi Turbo Lace needles at Cloverhill<\/a>, and I have to tell you, the lace needles made this go so much faster. I see more of them in my future.<\/p>\n

All that is left to do with the sweater is to sew on the buttons and to give it a wash. I am pretty happy with the results, though there was one disappointing thing with the skein of Jitterbug: there was a knot in it. I haven’t had that happen to me in a long time, as most sock yarns don’t seem to have that problem. I wound up cutting out the knot and doing a Russian join to take care of the situation.<\/p>\n

There has been spinning as well.<\/p>\n

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This is merino in the Black Watch colorway from Mama E’s C*eye*ber Fiber<\/a>. I picked up the roving at MSWF from the Cloverhill booth. The areas that I thought were black are really just a very dark green. It is an interesting spin. What I am going to do with the resulting yarn is yet to be determined, but it is a nice break.<\/p>\n

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