After seeing the iPhone compilation of pictures and videos from knitting on the Baaxter Carbeth, 20 knew he'd lost his new sweater and that we were going to re-knit it.
I hadn't done a cast off or woven in any of the loose ends, so it was physically easy to pull the needles out and start frogging (rip it rip it). Mentally...well, a. it wasn't right and I wasn't happy with it and b. Stella (the queen of rip it back and make it right) came down to help and support. It wasn't so bad ;-).
We used my handy Nistock skein winder to...wind it into skeins.
One sleeve.
The body. I'd spit splices all the original skeins together so we decided to let it wind off as one biiiig skein :-o.
We used steam to relax all the knitted curls...without setting Stella's hand on fire, but Be Careful with steam!
Back to normal. Wool yarn is fun :-).
Just for curiosity I decided to hold out one sleeve to wet block just in case I needed to know something important about how the knitting would behave. I don't usually wet block my swatches...and should.
We took measurements, let it soak for 20 minutes, set it out on a towel, let it dry completely, remeasured, learned that Baaxter's wool yarn was going to respond the way wool does almost every time, steamed out the last of the curls and wound everything from skeins into balls.
It doesn't look like a sweater's worth of yarn there, but it is. 1700 yards total, but held double to knit a second attempt, smaller Carbeth sweater.
20 was okay with getting his Ford sweater back, but asked if he could participate more this year so he will be going along as my Iknitarider :-). The Carbear will be the knitting bag mascot :-).
The Baaxter logo from a couple years ago has been updated to include 20 and reflect Baaxter's more, um, mature color ;-).
The Iditarod's Ceremonial Start is underway, so the Iknitarod "mushers" are eligible to cast on, so I'm going to go get busy! Hope you enjoy following along :-).
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