Yarn, Ho!
February 16, 2008 by Cass
Avast me hearties! The treasure she be mine! Aaargh blah blargh blah.
I never could talk like a pirate.
I dashed to the mailbox today to find a small squishy envelope there. Waaaaah, said me. Too small to be 8 skeins of yarn. Way too small to be $50 worth of yarn.
But I was wrong. Tucked into the lil envelope was 8 skeins of Berroco Seduce, purchased to make Norah Gaughan’s Flow, from her pattern book Vol. 2. (color is called Gris Bleu)
I had no idea it was so fine. And by fine I mean thin, DK weight. Her pattern calls for size 8 needles, so I was expecting more of a worsted weight. Here’s a pic for scale:
The yarn is undeniably gorgeous. It’s like buttah. Very slickery, very drapey, very soft. It’s got a nice sheen.The colors are just perfect- a nice rich brown with robin’s egg blue.
It’s gorgeous.
But I’m knitting a swatch, on size 8’s like the pattern calls for, and I’m getting mesh. Now, in the picture of the finished garment, I don’t see skin through her top. It looks like solid knitted fabric. Mine, not so much.
The pattern tells me I need 19 sts per 4″ on the size 8’s, which works out to 4.75 sts per 1″. The yarn band says I’d get 5 sts per 1″ on size 7’s.
I’ll knit the swatch and do the math, but I’m thinking my pale skin is gonna shine right through this top. Not to mention my undergarments. (And no, these girls are always trussed, else they’d be down around my belt and pointed at my shoes.)
Stay tuned.
The yarn looks nice.
Ugh, swatching. I know it is a necessity, but I just hate doing it. I always just want to get started on the project.
Hope your guage comes out.
wow that is really pretty yarn. I would never know what to knit with it, but it is gorgeous!! I am just starting to expand my horizons as far as different types of yarns goes.
Beautiful yarn! I love the colors.
Beautiful, beautiful yarn and eyes! Even though the yarn looks like a very fine-gauge wire and I’d never finish knitting anything with it. It would take me forever. I say trust yourself. About whatever. (It’s not too early to be on my second large glass of wine; why did you ask?)
Wash the swatch. You never know what may happen.
If you still don’t like the washed swatch, how about knitting the “buttah” together with another strand of something else to make it an opaque knit?
Oooh, pretty yarn! Does it say if it will change after blocking? Maybe you can message Norah….?
Yeah…the picture definitely makes the fabric look more “dense”.
That is teeny yarn! Cass, your pic cracked me up. I immediately thought “size doesn’t matter…” hehehe
As for the see-through-ness, do not underestimate the comfiness of the camisole - it is a godsend.
Note that the model is FAR AWAY in the photo. Maybe that should have been a clue?
No doubt the yarn is gorgeous, but as a pp suggested, block your swatch and go with your gut…
Val
It is nice but I was reading it when the 5yp walked by saw the picture if it with you and your mouth adn said a rattlesnake…LOL
Kids
I think it will be sheer but look nice.
I’m glad you got your camera unglued. Love this yarn! Beautiful.
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