Jofrog is Knitfrog!

An almost daily blog of my knitting adventures and conquests!

December 28 2004

Now's Good

So Alison, you asked when I'll be starting one of those new sweaters, how about tomorrow?

I walked into my LYS yesterday to find the owner ordering some Jamieson's Spindrift! I told her that I was thinking of making two sweaters out of it, but of course I didn't have the patterns with me. They not only had Jamieson's Book #1 for the grey sweater but also had the Winter 01/02 Interweave Knits! After looking at them one more time, and having one more person tell me that the grey was the way to go, I decided to go with the red one! It's the one I kept going back to, it's the one I wanted everyone to pick, and hey, I need some more red in my wardrobe.

Usually yarn takes a while to come in, some colors are always backordered, but the distributer called to say that all of the colors were in stock and they will be sent out today! What luck. I guess I won't have to wait to start on this sweater after all.

The only down side of this story is that Jamieson's is now selling all of their yarn in pull skeins. Down side you say? Why? It means that they are almost one third smaller, but still cost the same so rather than needing 18 skeins or so I'll need 25! Big difference in cost but it will be here Thursday!

I can't wait to cast on. I won't even need to swatch because the hat will double as a huge swatch. Some people swatch with sleeves, I swatch with hats.

posted by jofrog16 at December 28, 2004 23:31 | link | comments (5)