I got the yarn on Monday and I think I started the socks on Wednesday.
I love, love, love this yarn, and I love the colorway just as much.
When I first looked at it, I thought it was pretty, but wasn’t sure how it would knit up. I have to say, it’s amazing. I would never have put those colors together, but there’s a reason that I’m not a dyer. I love the way it stripes with the blue, then the shades of pinks.
I’ve pooh-pooh varigated colorways for quite some time. Since I was doing lace and other patterns, anything other than a solid took away from the pattern. My experience with anything that wasn’t a solid wasn’t good, either. I had mostly used Knit Picks old self-striping, which wasn’t really pretty and wasn’t a nice base yarn.
I just didn’t know what a beautiful colorway could look like when it was knit up. My mind can only handle stockinette these days and I’m so happy with this yarn.
Can I also gush about the great base yarn? It’s sooo soft! It’s nothing compared to Vesper, thank goodness. I don’t know that I’ll buy a lot of sport weight in the future, but it is nice to have such a quick knit. I’m still drawn to fingering weight. Khris has said that she may do something similar to the Blue Plate Special with fingering weight in the future. I will definitely sign up for that.
The Cream Baby Cardi is coming along. I’m almost done with the second sleeve and I hope to start the collar and hood today. That is, if the socks don’t distract me.
By the way, given my busy work schedule, I probably won’t be posting much more than once a week. My knitting has slowed down, and I don’t have the time or energy to post in the evenings.
