I'm not making a swatch for that

Okay, I'll admit it. I never swatch. Not for anything. I should honestly be in knitter's jail because of it by now. Because I've had multiple projects that turn out not quite right because of my (lack of) swatching. Usually they're projects that it doesn't matter quite so much, like scarves or gloves or hats. I know that I should get in the habit of swatching, but I never really understood why. What's the point of taking my precious knitting time and wasting it on something as boring as a swatch? So what if my project turns out a little (or a lot) bigger or smaller? And then you have to think about washing the swatch then waiting for it to dry before you can even start the darn project. Sounds like a waste of time to me. Except....it's not. I have decided to reform my heathen knitter ways and learn how to swatch. I don't know if any of you readers out there in the 'verse have been keeping up with the Kelbourne Woolens swatching experiment, but I definitely have been. (Here's a link to Kelbourne Woolens' blog posts about it; and here's a link to one of the swatching send ins.) And boy, have my eyes been opened. I'm planning to knit a sweater in the coming months (I'll get to it sometime, hopefully) and I know that I 100% most definitely need to swatch and swatch and swatch for that. I'll even wash and block the swatch too, just to make doubly sure that my sweater will fit exactly the way that I want it to. I don't want to knit an entire sweater just to find out that it's forty-seven sizes too big or too small. I'm sure that all the other knitters reading this who actually take the time to swatch are saying "Of course you need to swatch, you dolt. How have you ever gotten so far without doing that?" The answer to that, of course, is that I've never really wanted to make anything fitted before now. I never had the itch to make socks or sweaters or any other thing before this year. Now that I do, however, it's time to get a-swatchin'!

Also, as just a side note, the weather is finally cooling down here in Ohio, and I'm so excited to start wearing my knits that I can barely contain myself. I hope that it stays cold, and that the weather stops fluctuating so weirdly. Photo evidence of said cold weather: