Please excuse the fuzzy photo. I'm too lazy to try to take another one.See the difference in the gorgeousness when the number of stitches is changed? I used 88 stitches in the first one, I think, and decided that as long as it's going to be a bigger kid's hat, why not make it bigger on purpose? So I went with, I think, 106 stitches. Something like that. Still size 6, 16" addi turbos.
*whines* It's not pretty. The colors are still wonderful, but the placement isn't what I had in the smaller (ha!) hat.
I wonder what'll happen if/when I try to knit a me-sized sweater from this yarn. Am I doomed to stripes, or will it eventually, as the number of stitches/needle size is increased, sort of smooth out again?
I'm almost afraid to try.
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That's the only problem with hand dyed yarns like that. You never really know what you are going to get.
They're so gorgeous in the hanks. One of the things that I love about my favorite LYS is that the owner knits up little swatches from all the yarns she carries, so you can see just what it's like. Maybe I can talk Claudia into letting me do that in different gauges.
At least I know that Santa Fe, that particular dye lot, anyway, is gorgeous knit circularly on size 6 needles on 88 stitches! Or however many I used.
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