La Tricoteuse Bretonne

Miles and more

I just recieved my membership card for the program *miles and more* from a flight company, and this is what came to my mind as i had to type the title for this entry. The main reason for this is that i have the impression to be knitting miles and miles of stockinette for the project I am now going to start the last piece.
Worse, i have to cencentrate, as i often do mistakes (when am i not doing any could be a problematic question to answer, it's true), by knitting the stitch below the one i am suppose to, creating an unesthetic hole as i do so. I've been ripping on this project, once again. But not that much, so i'm looking forward starting on knitting through the main piece number 2 of the cardi i've started during the summer. Optimistic as i am, i didn't have the idea that knitting the front of such a cardigan could be so long, and represent so many stitches, even though it is quite obvious from the picture.

I had started with this special yarn i bought in Aachen last spring, like some go to an adventure. I had knit a swatch of this Cahsmere Flavour from Noro, a yarn which is sold under the Görg und Görg label and this was the only prep i did. I had no idea how many grams, or how many meters i had.

Like, so.

I've been lucky because after knitting one front, the back, and the 2 sleeves, i had still a little bit of yarn. Not enough to knit the second front, but the lenghth of the yarn had been quite impressive. As i returned to Brussels I weighted this time on my little ikea balance which has a gram graduation, and saw that out of 100 grams, i still had 10. The first front weighting about 30 grams .

So last week-end when we were in Aachen with Sophie
and a non-knitting friend, my only purchase for myself was 50 grams of the precious yarn. I also got a bit more yarn, but not for me! Unemployment means diminished resources, and honestly, my stash can help me go through a lot of knitting. So i enjoyed this shop very much, i was glad to be with another knitter who was buying, and to push my non-knitting friend to come back to it (well i didn't push her that much, she was running into the walls of beautifully coloured wool anyway with huge eyes and *hungry fingers* - I guess that makes her an even better friend :-) ).

So now, off to some miles long stockinette :

Posted by Stephanie at September 13, 2006 11:30 AM