The 3rd time wasn’t the charm

But it appears the 5th attempt just might be it!

Coachella is cruising along on size 7 needles and it even seems to be a good fit after a quick try on where the pattern suggested.

My rewrite for the smaller needles has been a bit of an easy cheat. I am basically knitting a size bigger and added a few rows here and there to make up for the slightly shorter length. So far so good and I would never know it’s been tweaked!

If anyone is interested in detailed instructions on knitting this on a size 7 needle I would be happy to post it when I’m done and positive it all works out

In the meantime I have stumbled across this shameful piece of knitting.

It’s a lovely Manos of Uraguay yarn that I managed to make the absolute worst of a few years back. I decided to stretch the needle size up to a 10 (6mm) for a sweater pattern I wanted, mistake #1, then I knit it Continental style which was mistake #2 because this was my first project done in Continental style. I thought after one quickie lesson on the knitting style that I knew it all – he he! I didn’t understand that stitches mounted differently when knit flat compared to when knit in the round. I was told that you knit into the back of the stitch Continental, which you do if it’s stockinette and knit back and forth. Knit in the round (stockinette) you need to knit into the front of each stitch. But I was the ‘good’ student who knit into the back as told not paying any attention to what my knitting looked like.

In a nutshell, it looks like crap because every stitch is twisted and on top of that it’s so loose I would look like I was trying to pick up some business walking down the street in it.

But the yarn is so pretty that I decided to rip . . . and rip . . . . and . . . rrrrrrip.

Did I mention the sweater was nearly done?

I crudely put the yarn in hanks and hung it out in the rain last night to get the kinks out.

Today it is dry and looking beautiful again.

This will definately be the next project. What to make? What to make?