Day 4 - Erica's Sweater

Here is Erica's pattern.

Day 4 - Toni

Aside from just having to rip back about 3 inches to fix my join which was looking dreadful,

I am making progress.  Luckily, I've worked with this yarn before and I know the horrible unevenness of the stitching will disappear with blocking.  Otherwise, I'd have chucked the whole thing by now.  Funny how you have to get to know a yarn and all its quirks.  So, not as much progress as there was last night, but one entire ball of yarn used up already--that's a start.

Hi!  I've been knitting a shawl that has been kicking my butt over and over, so I am setting it aside or at least putting it on the back burner for a cardigan.

I have some Bergere de France worsted in black or an inky navy blue - can't tell - and I'm making a cardigan that's roughly based on a free Lion Brand pattern that I'm altering a bit - I only want one button and I'll be using a loop, not a buttonhole for it and I'm making the ribbing at the bottom about three inches deep instead of the skimpy inch the pattern called for.  That said, I got the left and right fronts cast on together on one circular and the ribbing and the first three rows of stockingette done Sunday night.  Didn't get the laundry done, but I knitted.

Day 3

This day might actually see me casting on a sweater.  I'm still swatching this morning.


Now for some housekeeping:


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Happy knitting!

Day 2

Change of plan.  I knit two gauge swatches with two different yarns that I was interested in using, and neither one suited the pattern I was considering.  So back to the drawing board, maybe. 

Here is the pattern I'm contemplating now.

I don't have perfect gauge for this pattern either, but I can work with it.  (Tina, you can mock me later.)

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Day 1 - Toni

After all my searching and browsing and debating, at the last minute I decided to go a completely different route entirely and have swatched and cast on this:  http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/us/pattern.php?id=3520&lang=us#pattern_content

which wasn't actually one of the sweaters I was originally considering.  But it's using yarn from 2006, so it is a Deep Stash Dive!

And We're Off!

Happy March!


Welcome to March Sweater Madness!


Hope you've all cast on.  Or at least found a pattern and some yarn.  And perhaps even swatched.  Nice thing about March? 31 days to work your magic. 


Good luck everyone.  Please feel free to post some glamour shots of your yarn and chosen pattern.


I still have to swatch and make sure I have gauge, otherwise there might be a change in the pattern line up.


P.S.  I am considering creating a facebook page for the March Sweater Madness.  Opinions?