so you understand less as the pages turn...*

[SKIP TO THE BOTTOM if you just want knittin']

I rarely do memes, as you know, but I saw this one on Cara's and at Lolly's and it interested me. The directions are to take the list of books below and mark them as such:

"Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won't, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around the ones you've never even heard of"

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - Currently Reading.
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brönte
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (I hated this book.)
(Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(Atonement - Ian McEwan)
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Currently Reading
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert

I consider myself someone who doesn't read popular fiction, so it's interesting I've read so many of those books. Some of my favorites are on that list. Weird, eh?

Loll

So as mentioned, I am lucky lucky and get to knit a store sweater for Main Street Yarns in Rowan Calmer, the dreamiest of yarns.

I knit my Audrey sweater from Rowan 35 in Calmer, and had a bear of a time getting gauge. In general I struggled with the yarn, but I loved it.

Here's a lesson for you.

The thing is, when I knit that sweater I FINALLY had success in the gauge on US 8's (5mm). This new sweater, Loll, has the SAME gauge, same yarn, so I should be good to go on an 8, right?

Wrong. Just to be safe I swatched, and I need a 10. A 10!! 6mm!! Just a lesson for all of us. Trust no one. Mulder was right.

Start me up

So here's a beginning picture of the fringe and the sweater itself:

Initially I was unsure about this fringe, but now, I think it's gonna be good. Here's an update with the waist shaping:

The pattern is WRONG for sizes 1, 3, 4, and 5. I'm making the 3rd size (medium, I guess) and had to re-figure the stitch count. I will post about this in more detail next time for you, and I have written the people at Rowan so I can show them the error. Kim Hargreaves probably knit the second size, then she or someone else extrapolated, wrongly, I can tell you.

But that's why I'm here, right? ;-)

Hi Ho Hi Ho it's off to work I go.

*The Shins. Love them.