Vacation Knitting, Day 1

I'm working on a pair of longies for Khloe on some beautiful yarn I got in a shorties for yarn swap on Hyenacart. It's from Retro Baby, and it's bulky Merino, called "OOAK Rainbow".



I love this yarn! It's so squishy and soft, and it begs to be petted! The variegation in the yarn is perfect; very little pooling, and so many colors...they will go with everything.

We left this morning on vacation, and there will be several times this week where I will be "blessed" (at least that's how I'm choosing to look at it) with large chunks of knitting time. I have three projects, and it's a good thing. I started these beautiful longies, only to realize that I only brought one skein of the yarn! So I'll get them down to just past the gusset, then I'll have to put them aside. More on the next project some time tomorrow, I'm sure.

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Springtime in Hollis Sweater

This is my attempt at the Springtime in Hollis Sweater by Teresa of Comfort Wool. I am not a Knitter, I'm just a knitter, so I made some basic mistakes on this one. I used acrylic, which for me, is not a good idea when knitting. It's much harder to see the individual yarn strands with acrylic, and it's sticks to itself and isn't very forgiving. Wool next time, for sure.

Also, I am a novice stitch picker upper, and boy it shows on this one! One button band is a good inch shorter than the other one. Gah! And it's not like you can block acrylic. It doesn't stretch out right. It's stiff in all the wrong places. Have I mentioned I won't use acrylic on this again?

Anyway, I did short sleeves because I was afraid I would run out of yarn, and so I plan on doing a longer sleeved version, but here's this first attempt, and Khloe loves it, which is the main thing.