We went to the Marine Reserve today
at Moss Beach at the lowest point of the tide. We walked all the way out on the
reefs where the seabirds were and stood at the edge of the ocean, where the waves were frothing
against the rocks.
All sorts of fascinating creatures
were clustered in the tide pools. The more we looked, the more fat starfish we
found, sunning themselves on the rocks.
The seaweed bobbed up and down in
the low tide, looking as carefree as the white egrets and seagulls that walked among them.
If only my experience with my sea
sweater were as relaxing and free as walking among the seaweed in the ocean wind! Instead, the sweater has been something of a trial. Knitting with such
fine-gage yarn on size 2 needles, I tend to loosen my gage. By the time I was six inches up from
the waistband, I discovered my gage had migrated from 7 stitches/inch to 6.5,
and the fit was way off. After unraveling a week’s worth of laborious
knitting on tiny needles, I am now approaching the waistband again, using double decreases to
compensate for my looser gage. I am determined to have good waistshaping
in this ultra-fitted cardigan! At least, I hope it will be ultrafitted.
We’ll see how the gage progresses.
At least the colors are as lovely
as I hoped. The silver edge seems to draw the variegated ranges of grey, blue
white and silver together, and it does give the effect of a foaming ocean wave,
as I had hoped.