Single Ply Yarn

I've never worked with a single ply yarn before, and this Madeline Tosh "Tosh Merino" is interesting.

It's so soft, and it feels good in my fingers. And the colors of the brown are beautiful, there's really a lot of pink, green, tan. But the single ply is so splity. And I worry about it, I've had to drop stitches and pick them back up because half the yarn is sticking out of the stitch.

baby yarn

I bought 4 hanks of Madeline Tosh "tosh merino" in Rosewood while pregnant with Bewitched. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it, though I had an inkling to make a Zoe Mellor Robin Hood jacket for the girl.

Since then, though, I've learned several things.
1. I live on the central coast of CA and it never gets that cold.
2. We don't routinely visit places that cold.
3. I need to work with more linen, cotton, and blend yarns.

So I've been re-thinking. She's still going to get a sweater, but it'll be a little looser, not so cabled, and she'll probably only wear it a handful of times. Still, the yarn is beautiful & will look good in the simpler, open cardigan from Petite Purls called the Good Tree.

I love a lot of the patterns from Petite Purls & this is the second I've knit, the first being Olive. My version turned out super cute even though I flubbed the neckline a bit.

Just not Working

Had to frog the fingering weight cardigan I had going on the size 6 needles. The sleeve cap was each 1.5" wider than it needed to be. I'll try it again, the numbers were sort of loosely based on the "On the Beach" cardigan with contiguous sleeves.

I like the concept, but in addition to making the shoulders less wide, I also need to increase only on right side rows. Also, I need to order a few more skeins. The 4 balls of Knitpicks Stroll in Agate Heather will be pretty tight for a cardigan to fit the full size me.