More Stash Expansion
Well, when I went on my own mini yarn crawl last week I came home with a bit more than the red/white/pink stuff that I made the Project Spectrum Wallpaper out of. In fact for the most part these others balls were the ones I was on a mission to get. I lucked out and got three orphans which were marked down significantly. I still had to buy some additional full priced balls, but I got all the colors I needed plus a couple bonus ones I’m pretty sure will get used. This does mean that I have begun swatching for the Nautical Blankie design, though it isn’t too much to see right now.
Then because I’ve fallen in love with Dalegarn I also bought the above. Well, really it was more the need for baby fingering weight cotton yarn to make those lovely Bathtime Blossoms and Dale Stork was used in the pattern and was easily found. There might have been another option there, but I didn’t want to look any further by that point as time was getting tight for me to get home and get Emma fed (she’s got a scheduled stomach that you don’t want to push by more than an hour). Now 100% cotton doesn’t usually like me too well. But, I’m hoping that since these are small projects and it is small yarn that it will agree with me a bit better. I’ve wanted for a long time to knit pretty washcloths as I enjoy making bath products occassionaly to give as gifts - bath bombs, salt scrubs, bath salts, bath oils etc. and it would be really great to say wrap a bath bomb in a pretty washcloth.
We’ll see how it goes. If it goes well, I think I may be on the search for other cotton fingering weight options. I know the other washcloth and soap bag pattern set from Fiber Trends uses a yarn that according to Yarndex is discontinued. So, if you have recommendations of other fingering weight cotton, please let me know! Stork has a pretty wide palette, but most of it still doesn’t appeal to me too much. I’d love some more adult colors - rich, deep colors rather than brights and pastels… Perhaps Laura at Textiles a Mano could hook me up… I suppose I better find out if my hands will survive knitting these first though, huh?
Also in that photo is one of the new Chibi’s with the clear case and the two sizes of needle! That wouldn’t have been my choice in color, but it was all they had so I guess yellow will do…
