Shut Up & Knit!

Questioning Skies

Pale blue skies today... and a question.

I've been swatching off and on for that damn cardi I need/want to make.  It has not gone well.

The pattern wants me to do the ribbing with US4 needles and the body with US6 or whatever gets me the gauge.

This is where I get into trouble. 

I got gauge with US9.

o.0

I am not happy.

I need to swatch with US8s to see how that looks, but I have to actually get some needles in that size.  Yeah, gotta leave the house and shit.

Here's my question for ya'll...

If I use US9 or even US8 sized needles for this cardi, should I go up in size for the needles I use for the ribbing? 

There's going to be a pretty good size gap in there from US4 to US9.  I'm thinking too much of a gap to work without looking really weird.

Thoughts?

Ideas?

Opinions beyond I need a hair cut and need to get those US8s?

Helpful hints?

Progress... ?

She hates me right now, and I don't really blame her.  She wanted to cuddle and watch tv and I wanted to watch tv and finish my weird neon socks.  Since she's only a cat and I'm a people, the socks won.

Oh well...

At least, I finished the socks and am one step closer to being ready for Socktoberfest.

Now if I could just figure out which socks I'll be making. *L* 

I had thought about making two pair, but my knitting list has grown quite a bit this week.  Several pair of mitts here, a double knitted scarf there, a cute but weird hat over there, Dulaan everywhere with a side of red scarf madness...

Plus an end of the month birthday that requested a knit item in a style I've not tried before... and my sick need to felt...

Does anyone have the Betty Ford on speed-dial?

DK KAL

JoFrog is starting a knit along for double knit projects.

Boy wants Exchequered from Knitty.  He said baby blue and black.  I'm just nodding and smiling at this point.

I think the stars are aligning for me here.  Or should I say for the boy and his scarf.

Anyone else wanting to give double knitting a go?  It is surprisingly simple.  I figured it out while sitting in front of the computer from this tutorial.  I love google.

Anyone else want to play? 

Anyone?

Anyone?

/crickets

One of those weeks

I keep learning annoying things:

Like it pays to remember which way your cables are going when you return to a project.  There's a good chance they are not going the way you assume they should be going.  Nothing like figuring that one out after two hours of knitting.

Like just how mainstream "cool" knitting has become.  It used to be this semi-weird thing and now everyone and their dog seems to knit.  Just a little weird to me.

Like no matter how cool/nice/lovely you think someone is, the fact is people still suck.  There's no changing that basic fact.  I keep having to relearn this one and that annoys me no end.  I should be able to remember that one by now.

On the upside, boy and I seem to be doing well/better, kitty hasn't tried to kill me in the last three days, and I know that I'm a good/mostly nice person, who is trying to leave a small footprint on the world.  Even if no one else seems to notice or care.

Hiss!

She looks how I feel.

Yes, you should be afraid.  Hormones are a very scary and potentially dangerous thing.

No... really.

I crocheted a scarf last night.  Needed a change from socks.  Yes, Norma, it's a red scarf.  My last one for a couple of months.  I have "holiday" knitting to work on.  Plus socks, a cardi I can't get the gauge for, and a mountain of lace weight that's been waiting for fair too long. 

Oh, and the kitty woke me in a new way this morning.  She did her normal whisker torture.  Feels a bit like being caught up in a spider's web, but slightly firmer across my face.  Then she rubbed her nose against mine.  That part is new.  Somehow I'm sure that she's given me a kitty cold or plague or something.

It's going to be that kind of week.