At one point, I was interested in working with yarn that has a very long color transition. One summer, when Knitpicks has its yarn on sale, I picked up this skein of Stroll. The colorway is called Beach House – hard to resist! But when I started to knit it, I noticed that it was very thin and quite light. I put it back in the yarn closet while I had a good think about what it could become.
Flash forward to this year and the Summer of the Stash Bust. Way in the back of the fingering weight yarn cubbyhole, I came across the skein on the left. It is 100% alpaca lace weight in a warm white color. It is languishing, because I found it impossible to work with yarns that light. As I made my loops, they had the predilection to float right off of my needles. I grabbed this featherweight and decided to knit the alpaca and the Beach House Stroll held together as one strand.
Finding a garment that I can make using only the 450 yards of fingering weight is tricky. It should become a shawl, but I have way too many of those. So I came up with a pattern for a tiny, short-sleeved lace cardigan by Susanne Sommer.
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/arrowhead-lace-cardigan-3
Here is my swatch and my cast-on. The pattern is worked top down.
Based on the swatch, I am thinking that I will have to add a few additional repeats of the lace to get the cardigan to fit. SO, a game of yarn chicken is afoot. (sigh.)
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That will be a cute and practical garment. Yarn chicken is fun! When you win, anyway. 😂
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Hi Alissa. i am thinking of a few ways to work in other yarns if this skein runs out too soon.
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The yarn colour changes will be entertaining too.
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It’s a lovely color for this patern. Good luck in the chicken race.
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Looks nice! I like blending a solid yarn with another with color changes. It will be interesting to see your final project along with any yarns you add when / if you run out of the Stroll. Today, I may finally finish up my pair of socks started a million years ago . . .
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Good luck with your sock project.
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Thank you!
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The yarns are pretty together. Good luck!
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That is a great use for these yarns! Looking forward to seeing the cardigan. You are doing great with busting your stash 🙂
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Yes. It doesn’t look any smaller than before……but I will keep plugging away at it.
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It’s a good goal 🙂
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