Right after I wrote my last post, I frogged my Sea Glass Tee. After spending some time writing about it, I actually took a look at what was on my needles. Somehow — probably because I didn’t scrape together enough stitch markers for the yoke increases while I was knitting the first few rounds so my increase points got a little out of hand — I didn’t have the same amount of increase points that the pattern called for. In my defense, my Scholar’s Jacket takes up quite a few markers by itself, so I was running low, and I was a bit too excited (and a bit too lazy) about the project to go and scrape together more because it meant I would have to put the project down. A nerd am I. So I fudged the last few increase points, and therefore missed one.
I also came to realize I didn’t dig my gauge. I was knitting on twos to match the gauge given in the pattern, and going down so many needle sizes completely skewed my row gauge. Normally I don’t care so much about row gauge, because I feel stitch gauge is more critical, but I checked what I was hitting against the pattern gauge and I was far more compressed row-wise. So I threw caution to the wind, figured with a yoke pattern I could try it on for fit easily, frogged what I had, and switched to fives. And scrounged up enough stitch markers to go all the way around this time. Also, I pulled some more sock yarn to toss in the mix. I found a left-over skein of Wildfoote Sock Yarn from Brown Sheep that I picked up in Maine, and some ancient Palette from KnitPicks. Using the Palette makes it so that I’ll have to hand-wash this, but I was going to do that anyway. No sense risking a funky felting situation by mixing so many different yarns. Still loving this pattern, even more now that I’ve got it going right.