Olympic Knitting, Day 1
8 inches in and I'm moving! This top is going lickety split, which is to be expected when you're knitting at 3 stitches/inch. Once this is done, it's on to the big baby blanket in Pound o' Love. That will be slow going indeed.
Unexpected challenges? Well, the yarn is what it is. Homespun is soft and kinda fluffy; it's also splitty. If I've been struggling with one thing, it's been the splitting. When I knit with other splitty yarns, I can usually compensate for it. This one, not so much.
An upcoming challenge will be pattern matching. I chose a shade of Homespun that is variegated--bad move. I thought about knitting the front and back together, but realized I would then have some strange color movement when I got up past the armhole decreases. I figure it will be like the challenge to match socks, but different. Yeah. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
And, despite the siren call of the Jo Sharp, I'm sticking to the yarn. It's nice to breeze (in a manner of speaking) through my knitting as opposed to the slower crawl when I'm working with a DK weight.
Knit on, Olympians!