Arm Warmers Done!

Just like le Tour, my Tour de France KAL project the first week has been for the sprinters... however, the mountains still loom and that's where I expect to run into trouble.

Fawne Sleeves
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The sleeves were pretty straight forward, yes I did have a lot of errors, but the nice thing about crochet is that it's much easier to rip back and fix. I'll start the body today and I think that's going to be pretty straight forward. It's shaping in crochet that I struggle with, and I'm concerned about the part where the sleeves get attatched to the body.

I also started blocking the swatches for my Yarn 101 class:

Swatches Blocking
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Of course I had said they weren't picture worthy, but I thought it was interesting on the difference is sizes of the swatches just by changing one needle size. I'm using Cascade 220 and starting with a US size 4 (3.5 mm), then a 5 (3.75 mm) then a 6 (4.0 mm) even I was surprised at how much difference there was between swatches. I have swatches up to a size 8 (5.0 mm).

The Shoalwater is still in progress and I'm on my final run... I'm past the 4.5 repeats so I've completely committed to the 5.5 repeats.

Well, the live Tour coverage is about to start (tho' Matt's watching yesterdays stage... and apart from the very exciting fabulous finish yesterday, it's a bit like watching a B Club ride...) so I'm off to work on Fawne.