On the Needles

So on the needles I currently have started knitting Lion Brands Comfy Kimono
for my baby girl. I am knitting it in the same color as the picture too, it's such a gorgeous color. It is made using Lion Brands Micro Spun and size 8 needles. I am really liking this yarn, it's very soft kinda silky feeling and very easy to knit with. I always knew I was a tight knitter but I have found that to be greatly true with this pattern. The patterns gauge is 18 stitches across making 4 inches, well MY gauge is 22 stitches for 4 inches. I knew I knit tight so I made the next biggest size but the back is still an inch smaller than the size I was shooting for called for. That worried me at first but I measured one of her 6 month old tops just for comparison and it was 9 inches wide, the same as the kimono back, so I am thinking I should be fine, probably fit around 3 months or so. Anyway I digress a bit but I wasn't going to go up to size 9 needles with this yarn to get the correct gauge because then the stitches would have been very loose and I wouldn't have liked that either. Who knows it may fit her right away which is fine too as long as it fits her at some point I consider it a success!

I am also on the quest to find size 7 16" circular needles. Not an unusual size, I didn't anticipate any trouble finding them but it turns out they apparently don't exist in my area. I really don't want to go to my LYS to buy them because I know I will be paying more for them. I save my LYS to splurge on fabulous yarn, not needles. Anyway tomorrow I am checking one more place that is near my parents house, I am praying they have them because I have a coupon. If I don't find them there then it will be time to do some online shopping.

Didn't know it until after I bought the yarn and went to start one of the 4 hat patterns I have printed out and onmy list to do that every single one of them uses size 7 needles!! I couldn't believe they all used size 7, they were worsted weight yarn so I assumed size 8 but I was wrong. I wouldn't have imagined every one of them using size 7. Now I do have size 7 DPN's but I like circular needles soooo much better so I don't even want to knit the hat using only the DPN's eventhough I already have them. Call me crazy but instead I am on mission impossible because I'm stubborn! Well enough ranting I just needed to say a few words about that, apparently my town prefers 36 inch circular's because I could find those in every size but there are only about 3 or 4 different sizes of 16 inch. Who'da thought?