I see it’s been a while. My theory is that flickr is ruining my blog. Seriously, it’s where I spend all my internet time lately, and in many ways it is a lot more rewarding. But then again, I like having my own space to toy with. So the blog stays. I think, honestly, I need to come up with some new things to blog about. I’d like to get myself writing more, and not just about knitting. You may, dear readers, see a newly widened scope soon here at hungryknitter. There will be more food, and probably more fun things around Chicago, and more of my thoughts on whatever I happen to have read/thought about that day. So hungryknitter will still be an appropriate title, because I am pretty much always both of those things, but I also do some other things, and think about other things. There you have it.

In the meantime, I will soon have a super spectacular and exciting new knitted object to write about, but it doesn’t have buttons and I have no hope of getting to a fabric/craft store in the next few days, so don’t hold your breath. Today, however, I’ve come here to lament the demise of my raspy sweater. (at first I had a ravelry link there, but thought better of it since I have friends who … DON’T knit, who may or may not still read my blog.)



There’s not really a picture of what I’ve done so far that’s worth putting online, but suffice it to say that I clearly do not have enough yarn. This is the second time I have run out of yarn for this, actually. When it happened the first time I was at least able to go online and find some extra skeins. See, I was using Debbie Bliss cotton denim aran. (ravlink) And you know what, there is substantially less yarn in a ball of that Debbie Bliss yarn than there is in a ball of Rowan denim, which is what the pattern calls for. And I could have sworn I did the math before I started knitting this, but either I screwed up the math, I screwed up the knitting, Debbie Bliss cotton denim aran has screwed up yardage (you know, it’s pretty screwed up in other ways, too, besides being discontinued), or the pattern is screwed up. I’m fairly certain the error is on my part, but I have NO idea how it took place. See, I have 15 balls of that Debbie Bliss yarn and I have made a front, one sleeve, and about 2/3 of a back. I have two balls left. That is not nearly enough for the rest of the back, a sleeve, and seaming. My first instinct was to search desperately for some more of this in someone’s sale bin somewhere, look on ravelry, etc. But you know, nobody has it anymore, and maybe it’s for the better. I’m not really loving miles upon miles of stockinette anymore, and the more I look at the sweater the more I just don’t really want it that much. I put it away for the time being, but I may end up making an Indigo Ripples Skirt with it eventually. I did some math (although who knows how reliable THAT is, apparently) and it looks like I have JUST enough yarn.

And you know, even though it’s been discontinued (maybe not in all colors? whatever.) I feel like I should say something about this yarn. It feels nice and all, and it bleeds, which is to be expected from a super dark denim yarn, but I really feel like there were more knots in those skeins than there should have been. And one had a fairly substantial section that had been way, way overspun or plied or something and is a completely different texture from the rest of it. I knit it into the sweater and it looks like crap. Good thing I won’t be wearing it, anyway.