OK, most of you said “rip that sucker and knit it over on the smaller needles”. One or two said “leave it the way it is”. One person said “I’d use a LARGER needle”.
And a few basically said “who cares, do whatever you like”.
Damn. I ended up taking the smaller needle and knitting a real swatch. When I started this, I knitted a few repeats of the center of the lace pattern, decided I liked it, and knit away. I never really did finish a “proper” swatch, with washing and everything. I should really know better, especially with this yarn. It has a bit of a fuzzy finish, and it is mohair, so it’s very different from other lace yarns I’ve used.
Ignore the fact that the pattern is a bit off. I just did the center repeat section, and in the real entire lace chart, there are rows where that repeat borrows a stitch across markers across the row, so it doesn’t line up exactly in the swatch. But washing it and pinning it out, even in a “down and dirty” fashion, did even it out a lot. Also, this mohair doesn’t behave the way merino would, not surprisingly. It doesn’t hold the blocking the same way, so those holes collapse a bit when it’s unpinned.
I’ll wait till it dries to decide, but I’m thinking the lighter, “holier” look is going to work better with this yarn. I’m glad I didn’t rip, at least not yet.
Knitting is such an adventure!
I find my alpaca lace yarn uses a smaller needle than my usual merino lace.
OK. I think I’m officially confused here. Is this new swatch made with the smaller needles? Then it’s the same as the small-needle swatch in your previous post. Or is it done with the larger needles, of which you never washed and blocked a swatch. If it’s the former, then I stick with my suggestion to go with smaller needles. If it’s the latter, I will have to switch my decision and agree with you that the looser, holier version is better. In other words, I like this swatch the best of any you showed the last time.
Now, are you confused, too?
Well, dayum!!!
Just finished a mohair project with a minimal lace edging. Luckily it won’t require blocking. Good luck to you on your decision making.
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