7.03.2007

pattern: baby sweater on two needles from knitter's almanac
for: ami
timeline: started mid-march 2007; frogged mid-may 2007; restarted mid-june 2007; finished 07.02.2007
yarn: the woolen rabbit sock yarn in iggy pop
needles: US size 3 metal dpns (set of 4), US size 2 wooden dpns (set of 4)
sock #1: knit by vera
more details on swap here.

this sock was an excellent lesson in how different people can get remarkably different gauges with the same yarn and needles. i did about 1/3 of the sock on the socks vera provided (US 1), but they were way too small. i ended up going up to size 3s, but realized that my row gauge was really off. if you look at the picture below, you might be able to see that the sock on the left (vera's) has one more cable repeat than the one on the right (mine). i decided that i was fine with having fraternal twins and went down to 2s for the remainder of the sock. it worked out in the end, i think.

this is the first pair of real (i.e., using fingering weight yarn) that i've made for myself. my heel isn't as neat as vera's, but i'm going to blame that on the fact that i was staying up pretty late to work on it. the only change i made to the pattern was to reverse the cables on the second sock.