About two years ago, I fell in love with Hannah Fettig’s Elemental Boatneck from the Summer 2009 issue of Interweave Knits. And then I found a great deal on the yarn used in the pattern, Elsebeth Lavold’s Hempathy, in a beautiful Royal Blue that is apparently now discontinued so let’s hope I don’t screw this up, eh?
I swatched (yes, really) for it the moment the yarn arrived, but true to my knitting nature, using the yarn called for on the needles called for yielded too big a gauge. People who consistently knit to a tight gauge, I do not understand how you do it. Even when I try to knit at a tighter gauge, it’s too big. Oh well. So then, I had to order a smaller diameter circular needle that was long enough for a sweater, and in the meantime, I got a new job and moved across the country.
Last week, I complained about feeling like I was only knitting socks. So when the first of this month’s socks flew off the needles, I decided to do the “mature” thing and pick up a project that has essentially been hibernating for almost two years.
I think it’s fairly telling about my current state of mind that I grabbed the rubber chicken and zombie stitch markers for this project.
[…] also picked up my Elemental Boatneck and I’m about halfway through the body. Fourteen inches in linen stitch is still fairly […]
Yay Hempathy! Such a pretty blue too. This yarn is like the Cascade 220 of summer knitting to me (yes I know the gauges are nothing alike- its perfect anyway)… Now where did you hide the Maker’s Mark?
It’s a metaphor, I understand! I’ve never really knit with Hempathy before, and aside from a slight splityness issue, I’m really digging it and think it will make for a great summer-time sweater.
wow, quick knitting on the socks then? The yarn for your Elemental looks beautiful, though
Very quick! Plus, no issues that involved having to rip out the socks, or complicated cable and traveling stitch patterns. 😀