Etheric Knitting

Last year when Rowan 43 came out, I fell in love with Ether. The yarn didn't appeal to me, so I found a likely substitute and got really excited and knit a swatch immediately. Then I got distracted and didn't get to the project so I put it away.

So last night I pulled out the swatch and checked the needle size. I thought it was a bit odd that I had used a needle larger than the one specified in the pattern, but you know, my yarn is awfully different too.

This morning, I cast on. (You can probably see where this is going).

It looked pretty large, but I intentionally used a really elastic CO, so OK, fine. I kept knitting. (But not too many rows because I was only knitting while I was working).

It looked big. Really big. I checked my gauge because sometimes swatches lie to me, especially in inelastic yarn. I was waaaaayyyyy off. I thought that was kind of odd, so I checked my swatch.

It was no where *near* gauge. Evidently I couldn't get gauge at any price last year, so I decided to rewrite the pattern to my own gauge. I have some vague recollection of this, actually.

Moral of the story: check the gauge of the swatch.

I Must Be Doing Something Right

Because Parkle Girl came to me this evening just before bed and said,

"Emah, you put this (showing me) shirt out for me to wear tomorrow. I can't wear this shirt tomorrow."

Me, "Why not?"

Parkle Girl, "Because, you know." (she is just 3 after all)

Me, "Oh, you mean because you didn't clean up the duplos when I asked you to and that was your consequence?" She nods. "Well, after you cleaned up the duplos, you cleaned up that other mess that your big brother made, so is it OK if I let you wear the shirt?" (A little duck and cover)

Parkle Girl, "Yes. I really want to. (she pauses). You silly goose!"

All that was after she told on herself for not cleaning up the duplos in the first place.

Now... if I could just get her to stay in bed tonight. So far she's only appeared once, which is a vast improvement over the rest of the week.