Everything is coming along. Mom is flying in this evening (after like 5 hours of delays getting in and out of Chicago on her way here). Equipment I needed for the podcast is en route (yeah!). I have to say I got bogged down for days in trying to figure out what to order. The range of musical/audio equipment is huge, and if you don't know what you're looking for/needing, it seems a bit like a quagmire with pricepoints ranging from thirty bucks to several hundred for each component. Site creation is also underway. It's very exciting.
In the midst of all this, Mrs. Beeton's Wristwarmers (Knitty, Winter 05) are very much on my radar. I checked them out a while back when Brenda mentioned them on Cast-On. For some reason, they resurfaced in my knitting brain the other day, and I took another look at the pattern. I love the way they look under the cuffs of the jacket - like extra knitted cuffs. I don't know that I'm up for beading them, but I think other than that, I have to have them. Has anyone reading this already made them? Experience? Conclusion? I'd love to hear your story.
Okay, and here's one for anyone with strong math sense (when it comes to knitting). If I want to make a pattern, and it calls for 8 skeins of yarn, and I'm using 8 different colorways (which I plan to blend together similar to the way Charlotte's Web works), is it logical that, assuming I have a good sense of how many rows (vertical) I'll be working, I can divide the number of rows (for front and back) by 8 and work out an arrangement of the 8 colors and STILL end up with basically enough of all 8 colors to do a similar arrangement on the sleeves?
That works, right? I'm just trying to make sure that I'm not overlooking something obvious here. (Yes, I do realize that the portions of front and back after the armhole decreases will require less yarn, so I'll have more of those colors left over for the sleeves than I'll have of the others. But otherwise, it'll work, right? And I will sitll have ENOUGH of the first few colors to do the same number of rows of those colors on front and back even if I don't have much left for sleeves, right?) This is one of those things that would sort of really be scre%!d if I got halfway through the front, for example, and realized it totally won't work or that I totally won't have enough of the colors for the back. Any advice appreciated... assuming you've followed what I've said here and what I'm trying to do!
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