I have been busting out finished objects like it’s my job this week! Finished colorwork mitts! Finished my waiting for rain. *Pausing for applause* Thank you thank you! I know I’m amazing!
It’s not like it only took me a year to finish it…
But either way it’s done and it’s pretty and blocked and I’m taking it to work so it can get put to use in the walk in freezer that is my office.
My colorwork mitts were knit of a couple skeins I picked up in Portland on the honeymoon. They were out of the American Twist Worsted in Celadon and Saffron. I made up the pattern while I based the shape on a few different patterns I like. I’m still debating whether to write it up.
I have done a little doodle and come up with a pattern for a little cowl. It’s knitting up differently than I originally planned but I think it’s still rather pretty. You decide. After it’s done and blocked I’ll name it and post the chart and directions.
The yarn I am using is DK Merino by Hedgehog Fibers in the colorway Hunter which is actually a beautiful slightly variegated blue green color. If this color wasn’t so beautiful and it didn’t knit up like a dream, this yarn might be on my never buy again list.
As you may have guessed, I am not the most patient person in the world. I hate that winding up yarn is that step that keeps me from knitting for the first 10 minutes. I have my own swift and ball winder because I don’t like storing yarn in balls. I like keeping it neatly in it’s skein until I’m about to use it.
So back to why I was frustrated. It took me 2 and a half HOURS to untangle the first skein. I was so spitting mad after I finally finished getting it balled that I couldn’t even cast on. I lost almost an entire evening of knitting to winding just one ball of yarn.
I pulled myself back t
ogether and got that cowl cast on and knit up all the way to the end of the patterning over this past week.
But then I ran out of the first skein on the first row of ribbing. So last night I fearfully walked to the ball winder with the second skein telling myself it was a one off, there’s no way this one is tangled, I pull it out and – yep tangled.
Thankfully this one wasn’t nearly as bad as the first one and it only took me 30 minutes to wind it up. So again if the color wasn’t so beautiful and it didn’t knit up so nicely I wouldn’t buy it again especially since I paid $27 per skein. The skeins were pretty big coming in at 115g while normally skeins are 100g.
Final recommendation: if the DK Hedgehog Fibers you see is possibly the most beautiful colorway you have ever seen, prepare yourself for an extra long untangling process. I may have had a bad batch but I won’t promise that the next one will be ok. I will definitely think twice next time I purchase it and I might get it wound at the yarn store instead of trying to do it myself.