I did a large swatch and thought, yeah it will be fine with the right needles.
Not that I felt any of the three needle sizes I used for the swatch were the right size, mind you, but I moved forward with it anyway. You know that thing where you are blind to something and a good sleep takes care of it? Well, a good sleep made me see that even on the largest size needles, a size 5.5, the sections where two strands of yarn needed to be held together, were stiff and much to firm for what should have been a drapey fabric. Rock Toasties firm.
Wrong yarn for that pattern. For the rest of the day, I worked on my Daisies top.
I started this when I started the same top in Remix Light, intending them to be the same top but for the lace bit. I can tell you, I am not doing the out of control flare again. No way. Just to much knitting! It is going to be a more toned down version with shaping to fit me, which is already plenty of stitches in a row.
But because this yellow bright cheery yarn is the yarn I want to work with,
I found another pattern that I hope works, the Cascadas Tee. There is a lovely little lace pattern around the yoke and it is designed to be knit from the top down, my favourite thing. I'm hoping that a bit of lace with crisp well defined lines, is this yarns forte.
I'm taking today a bit easy again. Feeling much better today. No headache! and the rest of the stuff I have been feeling seems to be leveling out. Thank heavens.
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