Just Can't Say

In hindsight, working on a large-ish secret knitting thingy whilst trying to maintain 30 days of consecutive posting, was probably not a very good plan. I can't show you what I'm working on but I can show you the yarn

It's a really luscious yarn. Blue Sky Alpaca's Suri Merino. It's so wonderfully soft. Like Rowan's Cocoon, it's one of these unplied yarns, which feel heavenly to the touch. Knitting with it however, can be a bit of a challenge if you don't pay attention. It's just too darn easy to split a stitch and not see the error for 10 rows. Dropping the stitch to fix it tends to result in more split stitches, so the only solution is to either rip back of poke it back into the knitting and hope that the blocking will sort it out...because I was once told by an experienced knitter that blocking sorts everything out. (I just haven't figured out how to block something smaller, but when I do, I know that I will ascend to the next level of knitting)

The yarn sheds like mad and with my predeliction for wearing black, one of my non-knitting friends had asked me if I've adopted a persian cat.

Now, I'm off to go weigh some more yarn. I'm hoping to be able to provide some better statistics for sock yarns sometime later in the week. I know that it's not perfect, but I do want to see if there's any patterns on which companies consistently sell underweight skeins.