Pea Pod is seaming — pictures later. Last night I was too tired to seam, so — bad me. I started a new sweater. Look how far I got in one night!
Those big cones of Webs closeout yarn seemed to bring a lot of you lurkers out... right when I was off-blog for almost a week. This was because I kept forgetting to bring my CD card home. (And then I did write a long post and my browser crashed, and I didn't rewrite it.) Anyway, this is the start of Sienna from Interweave Knits:
with the Webs yarn.
Sienna really wants a cushy merino with lots of squash and body — Sundara's worsted merino would be fab for it, for example. But I can't afford to spend $180 on just one sweater right now, and also I thought it would be interesting to see what a rougher, less even-stitch yarn would do in this style. Plus, I need a brown cardi!
So this yarn isn't suited to this project, but it's not as bad as it looks. The raw yarn has a weird feel — almost waxy, very stiff. But wash it and it fluffs up, fulls out, gets soft. Here's an overlay of my washed swatch on last night's stockinette:
Color is all wrong, it's a very warm golden brown.
Interesting, no? Surely worth $20 for a sweater!
3 comments:
I love it, excellent color choice. Nothing like a tweed yarn to scream "It's FALL!"
That's going to be one beautiful sweater (and all the better that it only cost 20 bucks!)
I love that sweater. Which Interweave is it from? Colors are just perfect too. I would have spent $20 to knit it.
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