Merino-Ahhh!!

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.