Shortly after I gave up on the sweater I got the crocheting itch really bad. There was nothing for it but to grab at the yarn and try again. I checked one of the balls for crocking, and it didn’t seem to be the culprit skein, so I plunged forward with a few modifications to the original design.
Sweater Beginning
I used the base ch/sc that Doris Chan used for every project in the
Everyday Crochet book. It works beautifully because in the crocheting world, a normal chain tends to grow when you put other stitches on it.
That explains why my original free-style attempt got so big. This way you chain and put the first row of single-crochets on at the same time, making it the size it will wind up at! I think I had something like one hundred stitches to make it big enough.
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Okay, so I dyed the Rebecca yarn teal, and that felt like enough of an adventure, what with too much dye powder and all. How could it get worse?
Well, for starters, I suddenly discovered that I’m not up to creating a garment of this importance without a pattern. And I found this out after crocheting a good-sized section of it. I did, oh, maybe four rounds of double-crochet stitches on the “hem” of the sweater and thenstopped to try it on. It was about four inches too big around. I’d have been swimming in it, if I didn’t run out of yarn before the end.
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Well, I started spinning the Rebecca fleece on my regular wheel, but it has now officially been transfered to the Walking Wheel, giving me a total of three projects in line for the Walking Wheel, and nothing planned for poor little Saxony. Why the sudden stripping of its privileges? No, the wheel’s not getting cleaned up yet. It is not letting me spin as thin as I want to.
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