Olympic Yarn

For your viewing pleasure here is my order from Kaliedescope Yarns. That's 7 skeins of Plymouth Wildflower DK in Ociean and 1 skein of the discontinued Mission Falls 1824 wool in Raisin. The blue is for the silk camisole in LMKG and the purple is for some fingerless glove thingies from Wendy's site. (Let us not discuss how I just found a site that offerred more skeins of the DK for less money, because that will just upset me. I plan to pretend like that never happened.)
One of the skeins has already been unwrapped and had an attempt at a gauge swatch. For you to laugh at, I present exhibit A:

After I get gauge I'm going to wash it and dry it to make sure it keeps it's shape and all. It's cotton, but it's also acrylic, so I'm not really worried about it stretching or shrinking - but this is for the Olympic KAL, so there's no room for error really.
Also, I'd like to note in advance that this top is in the 6 hour section of the book, and I laugh at that. This yarn, while lovely and soft, is splitty as hell and is going to require major attention. It's like someone took their favorite sewing thread and plied 80 peices together. I'm sure it will make a lovely top, but the chances of me working with it again after this a very low.

Onto more yarn! This is that stuff that I told you about for the elephant toy. This is the "exclusively for Joann's collection". It's a wool, cotton, nylon blend. I think it will be lovely to work with, but it's going on the proverbial shelf until after the hats that I have in the works and the Olympics, um, and the sock, and...nevermind. It's really planned as a Mother's Day present (I'll explain later why that makes any sense), so I've got plenty of time to work it out.
And lastly, if you ever doubt the difficulty of trying to get a decent picture in my house, I give you this:

This is how close my lovely assistant/stealer and eater of all things wool felt that she needed to be to really provide her input.
I fell over no less than two times in an effort to protect the camera in one hand and the yarn at my feet while taking this picture. Lucky for me, the cat did not feel the need to also be involved in today's picture extravaganza.
2 Comments:
The yarn is beautiful but splitty sucks!
I must say again, how impressed I am with your continental knitting! It's so even and smooth, wow! You sure you're really new to this? :)
It sorta makes sense, if you got a pertfect 5.5 on a #6, you might be able to get 6 on a #7 but you would have to be perfectly tensioned and consistent...too much stress! Knitting is supposed to be relaxing! (I thought of you and this "advice" when I had to tink and re-knit 4 rows on my beaded secret thingy INCLUDING BEADS 4 times!!!)
And in my opinion, loosely stitched cotton just looks sloppy even if it doesnt stretch!
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Debi, at 5:39 PM
Your doggie is so cute! I love him! I work in animal rescue so pics like that make my heart melt. I've been off the map lately but I'm back!!! :)
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traveling knitter, at 5:08 PM
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