Swatching

An idea of what to do with my Happy Feet Superwash Merino sock yarn, that I'm going to knit a sweater out of.  

Plain stockinette with a seed stitch border?  We'll see.  I want something that won't compete with the yarn's color shifts, although those don't seem so very drastic.  Maybe I can do something more intricate.  Then again I only bought four skeins, I might have to stick to stockinette.  Time for some math!

Deliberate Drops

Saturday Morning with Chris Blysma.

She walked us through several ways to drop stitches (intentionally).  My favorite swatch is the aran sampler.  In my own knitting so far I seem to favor the controlled yarn over variety.  I think the big runs of dropped stitches scare me a bit.  

A big run of dropped stitches in plain stockinette.





Another big run of dropped stitches in my aran sampler.

The controlled yarn over variety of dropped stitches in ribbing.

Dropped edge stitch fringe. And quite possibly the ugliest baby hat I've seen in a long time. Too bad. Some people in class liked it a lot. Different strokes for different folks I guess.