Alex is still looking like this:

And the On My Terms Blanket is up to six squares:

But I have started something new. The pattern is the Top Down Fitted Sweater from issue 11 of Yarn magazine.

I’m using Bendigo Allegro in the colour Amethyst. In the time between matching the yarn with the pattern I’d kind of lost the love for the combo, but once I started swatching I fell in love with the yarn all over again, and while the pic in the mag doesn’t show the jumper at it’s best, once I revisited the Rav page and re-examined more pics I decided I really did like it.

(Wierd thing is, I just bought the specified yarn for this project. It’s the aMAIZing corn yarn sitting in the guest shower downstairs, airing in the hope it’ll stop ponging. But I have other ideas for that yarn.)

My first swatch was way too loose after washing, and so was the second. I’ve had to come down two needles sizes and even then I’m one stitch off getting gauge. I think I’ll stick to that, though. The pattern is meant to be adjustable.

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I think I mentioned that I knit a Colorimetry last week. While rustling around in the stash for more charity scarf yarn, I found a ball of aarlan alpaca-silk. This sounded perfect for a Colorimetry since I’m too sensitive to wool to have it wrapped over my ears.

Over a couple of nights I knit up a Colorimetry, then knit a thinner version to use as a buttoned neck warmer. Only when I finally stitched on a button and tried them on I realised two things. First, the Colourimetry was enormous. Second, the yarn was itchy. I looked at the back of the label and realised that the fibre content was actually alpaca, silk and nearly 50% wool.

So I took them to s’n’b to frog. I’d done a sewn stretchy bind off, which doesn’t just rip out like the usual bind off. I set about unpicking it. Forty-five minutes later I reached the end…

… and realised I’d been unpicking the cast-on edge.

I’m beginning to think this yarn has it in for me.