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.
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