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Believe it or not, I’ve actually been knitting along on my yoke-u-lator sweater. I’ve finished the basic programming, for the sweater shape, but I always leave adding the yardage estimate until last. So, I’m currently programming that.
I’ve knit most the sweater, test fitting as I went along. Since I’ve only got one cuff to finish, this means I’ve actually put on the sweater and made sure it fits the way I wanted it too. (Mind you, I wanted an oversized sweater this time, so you will say, “Wow, big!” I knit a size 16 adjusting lengths down a bit to fit my 5′4″ frame; I normally knit an 8 or 10 depending on what I want to wear.)
Based on a comments, I know there are at least a few people anxiously awaiting the program to create the pattern for circular yoke sweater. So, you are all probably wondering, “Why the delay?”. Well, I had intended to get it out fairly quickly, but I’m afraid catastrophe struck.
I was sitting next to Jim, knitting away. I heard the dryer buzz, jumped, plopped my knitting on the coffee table and dashed to the basement to deal with the laundry. While fluffing and folding, I heard a far off voice shouting, “Lucia! I think the Piewacket is ‘blessing’ your sweater!”
Did the body attached to that voice grab the cat and try to save my sweater? No. (Not that I really blame him.; who wants to pick up a cat who is in the middle of blessing a sweater?)
When I arrived upstairs, I found the sweater was fully blessed. I wrapped it in a towel, carried it downstairs and washed the work on the needles. It’s difficult to wring out the excess water while it’s on the needles, so it took some time to dry. (The body that did not rescue the sweater did clean the coffee table.)
Fortunately, simple washing seemed to fix “the problem”; when the sweater was dry, I continued to knit.
For those wondering about the yoke-u-lator itself: I’m incorporating the yardage estimator. Because the yardage estimate bits of the code use information from the shaping code, I find it’s best to do that after I test knit the sweater shape.
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Erm… Who named the cat?
Comment by Sachi — 10/18/2006 @ 12:30 pm
What is it with cats during this season?! Ours has taken to “blessing” the front hallway – REPEATEDLY (and no, no change in diet, environment, health, etc.) I’m glad the washing worked. If remnants of his blessing resurface, I can recommend a good cat urine remover…
Comment by MonkeyGurrl — 10/18/2006 @ 2:29 pm
Oh, Lucia, I have been reading your haiku and using your teaching aids for over a year. This one has me giggling.
And looking forward to your sweater calculator.
Comment by ali — 10/18/2006 @ 5:35 pm
Ha! Our cat “blesses” the hedge in the garden every morning. As it’s not technically ours (it belongs to the neighbour) I’m not too concerned. He’s only “blessed” inside the house twice – once, when he wanted to go out at midnight, and we wouldn’t let him – he defiantly stood in his litter tray and aimed at the wall – cleaning it up took the emulsion off!A few weeks back, when a neighbour rescued him from a fight, he came in and “blessed” my blocking board. He’s pretty good otherwise, though he likes to tangle abandoned wool!
Comment by steelbreeze — 10/19/2006 @ 1:47 am