tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17215952.post116288533835209540..comments2023-09-03T12:05:16.859+01:00Comments on SoCherry Knits: My WeekendElainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17760583523578644450noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17215952.post-1162939486504962692006-11-07T22:44:00.000+00:002006-11-07T22:44:00.000+00:00What a wonderful weekend you've had; I just *love*...What a wonderful weekend you've had; I just *love* aquariams (should that be aquaria?) and got very excited seeing the picture at the beginning of the post. Did they have any skate/rays? I could watch those for hours!<BR/><BR/>As for doubling DK yarn, be warned, it will come up at chunky weight, if not even larger. When I first got hooked on knitting I decided to make my sister a sweater from a pattern for chunky yarn. The colours weren't advenurous enough for me, so I decided to blend my own by using 2 strands of contrasting DKs for some of the stripes. It came out ENORMOUS. Now some of this was a tension problem, but my Ma (who ended up doing a cut and sew job on it!) insisted that the stripes knitted in the chunky yarn wre smaller than those in 2 ends of DK. Incidentally, even after Ma's drastic intervention the pullover swamped my sister, so she passed it on to her boyfriend. The "boyfriend sweater curse" clearly doesn't apply when siblings are involved in the making as, 25 years since I made the sweater, the couple are still together. (Less sure about the garment!)Rosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04022430264856651436noreply@blogger.com