As you've noticed, knitting content has been quite sparse of late. I've got two socks in stages of uncompleteness, and a scarf that's about 95% finished. But I'm bored with them and wanted something new without spending money. If I had a sizable stash, this wouldn't be so hard, but since my stash is mainly one skein of this, one ball of that... finding an interesting project is difficult.



I do, however, have 8 skeins of Noro Kureyon, but only if I frogged the 4 skeins that were knit up as a log cabin square. And so I decided to frog it and start a new Klaralund. I figured that with a few changes (knitting in the round, downsizing the sleeves) I could make a Klaralund that I would wear and not frog (like Klaralund I).



I frogged the log cabin square and cast on for the body in the round. I knit 8 inches and started to notice it looked a little too skinny. I put it down for several days because I didn't want to measure it. I didn't want to know the truth. Today I measured... instead of 4 stitches per inch, I have 4.5 stitches. Half a stitch is not so bad you say? That's 2 more stitches per 4 inches, which amounts to a loss of 3 inches in the body width. That means there is no way it will fit without a lot of stretching (or some extreme dieting).



So I have to frog it. But I need to decide whether to continue on size 8s and recalculate the number of stitches to cast on based on my gauge, or go up to a 9 and try to get the gauge required...... thoughts?