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IME it depends a lot on where you buy it. I've consistently gotten softer lots at Joanne, iirc, but nowhere else. It definitely will felt, though, it's not superwash. It's worked up softer for me than it feels in the skein too, but I also don't wear it direct on skin. It's a little too itchy for a hat for me.
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Oh, if it's too itchy for a hat then definitely not for a sweater, then. I will continue my search for a locally-available yarn.
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Feb 14, 2024 17:18
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Mad Hamish posted:Hmmmmm I really dislike that garter stitch panel along the sleeves but I expect that could be omitted entirely. My first sweater was the flax pattern, with seed stitch instead of garter for the panel. I liked it considerably more.
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I am working on an Alpine Bloom sweater and am really hoping to knock a big chunk out of the body this weekend Bonus in the pic, the Ashford traddy a college friend got me hooked up with. I need to get spinning on her soon - my first wheel!
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Feb 18, 2024 02:19
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oh that's beautiful! What's the collar design?
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It is lace that was part of the pattern - I was a little scared because I am not a great lace knitter! The pattern as a whole is really fun, the sleeves also end in it but you need to graft it on which I am bad at so we will see!
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Looks beautiful. Grafting takes 120% of my concentration to get right and even then I might screw it up… I like tincanknits type stuff where it’s top-down and ‘put these stitches in hold for the sleeves.’
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That sweater is beautiful! As for spinning, haha well, from what my GF gets up to it can be pretty addicting! I think fully half the space under the bed is taken up by her fibre stash. Cast on my Flax sweater (minus garter panels on the sleeves - if I like how this goes I'll do another one with a cable panel in that spot?) yesterday and I'm already halfway through the yoke. The collar seems to be awfully loose BUT I am trying out the option where you add the ribbing later by picking up the stitches, which I may come to regret because it's something I haven't enjoyed in the past.
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What yarn did you end up going with?
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Feb 19, 2024 03:41
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Patons Classic Wool, worsted, in Heath Heather which is a nice greyish-brown. Entertainingly, it's almost the exact colour as some alpaca my girlfriend just finished plying.
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I have learned a valuable lesson about not buying all the yarn I need for a project at once. My scarf is now slightly two toned because the extra yarn I needed (same brand, same advertised color) is slightly lighter. I'm debating doing a light dye job when I'm done.
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That's just a design feature, and if someone doesn't immediately understand that then their aesthetic sensibilities simply cannot comprehend the scope of your artistic vision.
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Mad Hamish posted:Patons Classic Wool, worsted, in Heath Heather which is a nice greyish-brown. Entertainingly, it's almost the exact colour as some alpaca my girlfriend just finished plying. How did this go? I finished my sweater and am wearing it tomorrow for Easter. Liked the pattern so much I am doing a second with a chart I designed for the yoke. I have so many other projects I need to finish but cant stop knitting
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I finished my first sweater! I made it out of Noro Ito I'd had for ages. I have to take a ten year old project, too, since I had bought the yarn before I went to grad school. For now, I am trying my first sock.
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HungryMedusa posted:How did this go? I finished my sweater and am wearing it tomorrow for Easter. Liked the pattern so much I am doing a second with a chart I designed for the yoke. I have so many other projects I need to finish but cant stop knitting Yeah, I finished the body last week and am almost done the first sleeve. It's a little annoying wrangling all of this sweater while knitting the sleeve but I think it's going to all be worth it. I think the 1x1 ribbing on the hems looks like poo poo at the moment but I suspect that will be rectified with blocking.
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Aerofallosov posted:I finished my first sweater! I made it out of Noro Ito I'd had for ages. I have to take a ten year old project, too, since I had bought the yarn before I went to grad school. For now, I am trying my first sock. Congrats! Have you got a picture?
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Yup! Don't mind the goober wearing the sweater. I made the sleeves a little bit shorter because I mismeasured, but it is nice I won't have to worry about catching things with a long sleeve. 
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Aerofallosov posted:Yup! Don't mind the goober wearing the sweater. I made the sleeves a little bit shorter because I mismeasured, but it is nice I won't have to worry about catching things with a long sleeve. I actually make most of my sleeves 3/4 or convertible now! The sweater looks great! I always like seeing what stripes yarn like that makes.
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Aerofallosov posted:Yup! Don't mind the goober wearing the sweater. I made the sleeves a little bit shorter because I mismeasured, but it is nice I won't have to worry about catching things with a long sleeve. Looks awesome! I'm pretty sure the hems and seams on the first sweater I ever made were nowhere near as neat as that haha
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Aerofallosov posted:Yup! Don't mind the goober wearing the sweater. I made the sleeves a little bit shorter because I mismeasured, but it is nice I won't have to worry about catching things with a long sleeve. Love this!
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Thank you all for your kind words! It was fun to knit up a cardigan/sweater thingy. I'm starting my first sock. How about you guys enjoying your projects? I'm starting my first sock. Aerofallosov fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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