My husband had a knee replacement yesterday. In preparation for waiting room waiting, I decided on taking a book and a knitting project. At first, I thought I would knit some socks, but after leafing through my sock knitting books, I just couldn't work up the enthusiasm for selecting a pattern. Then I saw a sweater our librarian made, and she directed me to Westknits.com. I'd found my project.
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| Source: Westknits |
The pattern is perfect for scrap yarn, of which I have a lot, especially handspun. But I couldn't quite visualize how it would work out, plus I'd like to go for a longsleeve version. So I decided to knit a trial sweater with some of the worsted weight acrylic yarn I've collected over the years.
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| Picking up along the edges of the seed stitch back panel to knit welts. |
The yarn is worsted weight and the needles are US8. As a trial sweater, I have several advantages.
- No swatching to fuss with. Size and fit aren't terribly important here.
- I'll be able to experiment with the sleeve length.
- It's using up yarn I don't like to work with anyway (acrylic). And I'm not especially attracted to those colors, so I'm not emotionally attached to it. It will be easy to gift to someone who likes it
- I'm not very good at serendipitous color knitting. I feel I need to follow a plan because I want to know how it will all come together, but in my mind a sample sweater doesn't matter. I admit knitting the entire back panel with one variegated colorway wasn't very creative. Hopefully I'll get freer with color choices as I go along.
The surgery went well and he spent a lot of time dozing afterward, so I pretty much had the entire day to indulge myself in knitting. It's a small town hospital and so neither overcrowded nor noisy, so it was perfect for quiet knitting contemplation.
Waiting Room Knitting © 2026
by Leigh at Leigh's Fiber Journal
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