So fabulous!
I can’t believe how long it took for my first scoured skein to dry. Days and days! I should get a skein blocker to help that along next time, I think. Regardless, it IS finally dry and I wound up a smidge last night and set to work swatching.
Man this yarn is fabulous. Soft, flowing…a total pleasure to work with. I haven’t really worked with silk all that much, but I love it so far! I did two small swatches last night while watching MacGyver (so much love for The Adorkable One). The one on US 3s felt a bit dense, so I went up a needle size. The US 4s swatch is much more drapey, but still fairly cohesive. That may be the winner. I might do one on 5s, just to see how it looks, but I’m pretty happy with the swatch on 4s.
I was so tired last night that I didn’t measure the sts/in and the row gauge, but I’ll do that today. I’m also trying to figure out how big I want the final object to be. The bigger it is, the more room I have to work with the design elements. Decisions, decisions.
Oh! I also figured out last night how I may end up dyeing the thing to get the effect I’m looking for. It’ll involve a fairly MacGyvered setup, now that I think about it, so who says you can’t learn anything from television? I’m a bit nervous though, because if I do it the way I imagined, there’s like zero room for f-ing it up. I see a lot of test dyeing in my future, which means I finally found a perfect justification for having bought all that KnitPicks Bare yarn. Huzzah!
I really have no idea what I’m doing here. I’m just making it up as I go along. :D
In other news, Nadine has finished her bath. I need to remember to pick up a few more pillowcases from the thrift store, or some other container-like thing for storage. If I had the money, I’d buy these zippered 100% cotton cases I found online somewhere once, but IIRC, their ordering process was non-secured and faintly suspicious.
I’m rambling. Didn’t really get any good sleep last night, and should now head out to run errands and other fun things. Hope y’all are enjoying the day!