I’ve finally got my NbaT blocking. (I would have done it last week, but since my niece was coming for the weekend, the guest room bed was kind of spoken for.) I hope the water isn’t going to damage my blocking board . . . you can see how wet it still is by the water “halo” around the sweater . . . I’m assuming it won’t be hurt, because, well, blocking does use a certain amount of water, and surely the manufacturers planned on that.

  And here’s my 27-stitch swatch for my Union Square Market Pullover, which seems to have bloomed when I washed it. I should be getting 4″ (10 cm) to my 27 stitches, but you can clearly see here . . . 5″. This will call for drastic revamping of pattern numbers and a lot of hoping for the best . . . because, of course, the sweater is also knit in the round and I do get a different gauge between knit rows and purl rows, so that’s an unknown factor going in.

(And then I wonder why I have trouble getting sweaters to fit??)

Hey–go give Julie some moral support; that magazine (which I won’t name) “borrowed” her bag pattern with a promise to give her credit, and is now blowing her off and sending legal threats at her [justified] complaints. Corporate America. Gotta love it.

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