When the shark bites.

When I’m ready to start a new project, the last thing I feel like doing is knitting a swatch. I do it, I just don’t like it. It’s like eating your vegetables. You have to.

I started knitting swatches as a break from works in progress. When I felt the urge to start something new, I swatched. That way when I finish one project and am ready to go onto the next, I’m swatched and ready. After I finished the honeycomb cabled section of my Shakespeare Cardigan, I needed a break.

I got this yarn at Rhinebeck last year and have sweater quantity. It’s called Hustle and is from Dancing Leaf Farms. I bought it with the intention of knitting Corinne. However, I decided to swatch with it for the Terra Linda Cardigan. Right away I could see that this was not the yarn for this sweater.

I swatched again with Malabrigo Rios (Purple Majesty) and loved it. I’m psyched to that I’m ready to go with this sweater.

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Thing number #1 picked up some new toys at Petco. This shark is supposed to be one of those “indestructible” toys. Yeah, right. The cashier did say that if they “break it” within a month, we can bring it back. A month? Try 1 day.