swatch central

my suv became a super useful vehicle yesterday. finished swatching for arabella, traveling woman, and pavo real. below are the swatches. not sure how useful they will prove to be. i'm going with size 6 for the traveling woman-who will have a cool name since it's going to be my las vegas plane/airport knitting-any suggestions? the colorway reminds me of cherries in milk chocolate.

the arabella i got 5.5 sts-1" on size 6, but wanted to see how a smaller needle would look. the swatched area above the white thread is the 5's. after washing the swatch it grew a bit, so think i'll stick with 6's for this. now pavo real, i tried size 8 and 9-got about the same gauge 4 sts rather than 3.5 sts-1". will probably stick with the 8's so it's not too loose. the swatch using the 8's is below the stitch marker. below are the swatches, and if you're not a knitter-none of this will make any sense. however, it'll be the easiest way to tell my 3 knitting compadres who are going to be doing arabella and pavo real with me to know how things came out-

arabella (green) pavo real (pink)

A Swatching I will go, a swatching I will go. . .

Here's my swatch for the mystery stole. It's a bit wompyjawed, but that's okay. I did several rows, and I'm pretty happy with using the #4 needles, and the yarn. Which I think was more the point of the swatch. Definitely don't think I'd go with anything finer or fuzzier, nor would I go up in needle size. I figure this is the first, of what I'm sure will be many KAL's, and I only have less than $20 invested in the yarn and beads. The photo definitely doesn't show the color, as appears here. Bon chance to everyone doing the KAL---Here's to happy knitting.












oh yea, I think I'll do some work on the first pair of socks. . .