Last week, when I went out to an Oktoberfest dinner, I took the opportunity to stp on the west side at River City Yarns and as usual,found exactly the right thing.
The blue yarns that I dyed for Marcus' Paw Patrol Chase sweater were not quite as close as I wanted in color. You could see striping where there were two rows of colour in the yoke. Once I had joined the yoke fronts it wasn't so bad. I could change on each row and it seemed to be working okay, but it made the knitting go very slowly. I really wanted to finish the sweater in these pretty hand dyed skeins and colours, but it was taking forever and I wasn't having fun.
I voted for worsted yarn if I could find a superwash blue and yellow, when I stopped. And I did.
This is Berocco Ultra Wool. The right blue and a nice yellow in stock in exactly the right amounts. What a relief.
Once I got the set up rows complete, the thing just zoomed along. I took a break to chart out the little badge that the pups wear, but I didn't like the way it was knitting up in the sweater, so I took it out and decided to follow my first option. I am going to knit the badge on a small pocket. I can play around with the way I will make the badge a bit, without setting progress of the whole sweater back. Once I have a badge and pocket I like, I will mount it center front at proper badge height. Marcus can keep his glass cleaning cloth in the pocket and grandma might even get him a new one to take to school.
All my little boys are in school but for Emmett. They are growing like weeds.
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