Neither Hip Nor Funky

but look: A sweater!

Pattern: Cobblestone Pullover by Jared Flood
Yarn: Classic Elite Skye Tweed (from addknitter destash)
Needles: US7

I had a different gauge, so I adjusted the stitch count for a 42″ chest.

I love this color. Phil wanted this sweater in some sort of clay color since the neck reminded him of pottery.

I was initially a little disappointed that he did like this yarn b/c I wanted a sweater for myself out of it.

Good thing that I ended up with 7 balls leftover. Just one ball shy of being able to make this for myself. So I am going to start and track down an extra ball of 1285. Any of you have one?

I’m really going to have to make sure we don’t wear the sweaters at the same time.

Okay, so this first one is cheating because I finished spinning it in January, but I am so proud of it:

Papaya 50 merino/ 50 soysilk from Pigeonroof Studios

Then I started on a lovely batt from Funky Carolina. This was one of my first attempts at spinning for certain project, and I was really worried for awhile that I had spun it too thick.

However, it ended up pairing up perfectly with the Shetland DK I have, and I have started making a striped vest with the two yarns.

This last one has been a bit more of a process (and it is still going):

I was aiming for a worsted weight, and I didn’t realize how off I was until I ended up with a 3ply fingering weight. Ami and Kelly gave me good recommendations to cable-ply it for a worsted. It worked fairly well for me, but it ate up a lot of yarn. I finally had to admit to myself that I would not have enough for the Habitat that I wished to make.

I could switch to a Turn a Square hat paired with some other handspun, but cables really pop in this yarn so I’m not sure I want to do stockinette with it.  Although I forced it on a US8 for Habitat, it is really more of a chunky yarn that wants to be on a US9 or US10.   Any ideas for a cabled hat with chunky yarn?

I know I can always design my own, but I do love pattern browsing.

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