I want to marry my new sweater.
The free pattern will go live on Craftzine late this week or early next, so you only get a little peek right now.
In other knitting, I just unraveled the first sleeve of Kid’s Superman sweater and learned that the happy fun knitting adventure I’d planned won’t be materializing. I had assumed I’d be able to spit-splice the broken yarn from the ragged sleeves and just knit them straight down. Then I’d just darn the main body. But it turns out the wool won’t split splice. I don’t know if it was superwash, or if it’s been damaged by dry cleaning (it kind of has that crunchy dry cleaned feel), but in hindsight I should have realized the stitch definition was too clear and the pits were too pill-free for regular wool.
But as usual, I dived in without actually thinking it through.
I should still be able to pull it off, but there will be much heinous end-weaving. Gross.
Around Cupcake Ranch, one unlucky lady has a particularly unfortunate hairdo right now.
Poor Faith already has kind of a wild, hawkish look to her that makes her the stringy misfit of the flock. And her new molt-driven mullet is not helping matters. She’s rocking sort of a bearded lady look. No wonder she’s so mean.
I would recommend using Russian join, since you can’t use the spit splice. I am sure you know how to do this, but just in case: http://www.knittinganyway.com/freethings/russianjoin.html
Could you just use black yarn to re-knit the sleeves?
That’s a great idea! I would love to avoid all that splicing and/or weaving. I’m afraid the yarn’s too fine for the Russian joins not to be obvious. I’ll ask Kid about it.
I am so glad I’m not the only one with a chicken having a bad hair day! Our poor Betty went broody last year, then started to molt…she ended up looking so thin and stringy.