Ok, before we get to the cast on, let's deal with the swatches from the yarns I'm not using. You'll recall I said I was leaving them attached to the skein (not cutting the yarn at all). ⁠ When I was done with the swatches, I just unraveled them. But because I blocked the swatches, the yarn is super kinky.⁠ Don't. Ever. Knit. With. Kinky. Yarn.⁠ It's no fun, and it will wreck your tension. ⁠ If you need to use the yarn right away, you can wrap it back into a skein (a swift or the back of a [...]

And here they are after being blocked. The changes are a little bit subtle (especially in a picture, it's more pronounced in person), but still important. Flip back and forth between this post and the previous one if you want to look more closely.⁠ The easiest place to see them is probably to look at the spaces in between the stitches, especially on the Hedgehog Fibres and La Bien Aimée yarns. You can see how they both sort of opened up and filled in the spaces between the stitches to make a much more solid fabric. Which is very much [...]

So here we are, all unblocked. That's Hedgehog Fibres on the top left, La Bien Aimée on the bottom left, and Berroco on the right.⁠ I have some suspicions about which one I'll pick, but until they're blocked, that's really all they are. Because I have a feeling all three of these are going to look quite a bit different after I block them.⁠ So, I'll bind them off (but not break the yarn), toss them in the sink for half an hour or so (to let them get really really really soaked all the way through), then fish them [...]

And finally, Berroco's Mochi in color 3225. ⁠ This one is a slightly different structure than the other two. Instead of being a plied yarn with bits of colorful fluff caught in the twist of the yarn, it's a tube with bits of fluff blown in (mostly gray, a few colorful). ⁠ I've used yarn of this sort before (the Inklings and Intimations hat and mitt set used it, and they've become one of the household's most reached for sets of woollies, so I know I like it). I've just not used it for cables before, so I'll be interested [...]

Next up is Hedgehog Fibres' Tweedy.⁠ This is another Yarn With Other Bits Of Yarn in it (I told you it was my jam, I was not at all kidding), and another where I talked myself into a small indulgence because I knew I was going to adore the yarn and anything I made with it. It is, as anticipated, an absolute delight. I strongly suspect I could use any of these yarns for this project and be delighted with the results. There are no wrong choices here. I just need to get them all swatched and see which one [...]

First up, La Bien Aimée's Corrie Confetti. ⁠ I am an absolute sucker for yarns with Tiny Flecks Of Other Yarns in them, which can be a little tricky to find. So when I saw that La Bien Aimée had made one, it was absolutely the push I needed to order, um, a fair amount of their yarn (on the theory that if you're going to order yarn from far enough away that the postage gives you pause, you might as well order several projects worth...this is my theory and I'm sticking to it, it's a very effective way to [...]