Progress

I’ve decided to keep track of the things I knit with numbers, so this is No. 2 (pending completion) so far:

Some observations this far about my knitting: I’m surprisingly close to the pattern’s gauge (for my second knitting project of all time) though it seems small and tight. I had some other knitting moms check it out and their first comments were on how small a needle size I’m using because the skein calls for a size 7 needle. But the pattern called for a size 3-5 needle, so I originally went with the pattern and am using a pair of size US 5 needles. So far, I’m only 2 stitches over the pattern gauge (meaning that my stitches are slightly smaller than called for). There should be 24 stitches across to 4 inches and I have 26 to 4 inches… and the pattern calls for 32 rows per 4 inches while I have, again, two rows over that. I’ve also noticed that as I get farther along, I am beginning to relax and my yarn hold has loosened considerably. I am guessing that this will put my gauge right at what the pattern calls for by making the stitches slightly wider and taller. In the end, though, I predict that this will be for Lowell and that it will indeed be too small for my growing James, however fast I knit.

In the picture, the edges are curling under but that’s normal from what I gather from my research for a stockinette stitch, which is what I’m knitting. It’s the same reason you don’t often find many people knitting stockinette stitched scarves. They’d be a tube of rolled up knit.  The scarves.  Not the people.