Swatch Day Tuesday

Here is a picture of the swatches I’ve been knitting up with all the old acrylic yarn I have laying around.

As I mentioned before, my husband and I are broke, broke, broke, so I’ve been knitting up anything I can get my hands on now that my summer knitting break is over. But the truth is, this is the best thing that’s ever happened to my knitting.

Knitting patterned swatches is the most fun girl can have with cheap yarn. I grabbed stacks of pattern books from the library and I’ve learned SO much about the way knitting works! Bobbles and cables and lace. Increases, decreases. It is amazing what a person can do with two sticks and a string.

Because of all this swatch knitting and leaps and bounds of improvement in my knitting, I decided to design my very first little sweater. I mapped it out on graph paper and everything.

I know you’re waiting on pins and needles, but things like the computer and the digital camera work very slowly around my house at the moment, so I’ll get back to you on a detailed description and photo album of the sweater.

As my favorite uncle used to say: “Over and out.”