Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

Still making my way through the endless linen re-washing. So far, up and down the stairs nearly 30x. Yesterday was the same. The mold is getting to me though. I'm most allergic to mold and dust (and angora, but I can avoid angora!) - it's really hard to avoid mold and dust.

The cashmere yarn came in this afternoon and I immediately wound up a ball of the natural black and CO the faux cabled design I had *intended* to do. Well, this black is really black, not the usual deep charcoal black one sees in *natural black* wool - nope, black like one finds in natural black alpaca. Now, I can't see well, as it is, with this eye still uncorrected (no contact yet), but try and do slipped stitch cables in black while squinting one eye closed. I got 3 rows up and pulled it off the needle. I'll now CO a plain k2, p2 ribbed hat for Dad - beans.

As I was waiting for the yarn to come in, I thought a slipped stitch design in the natural black and natural white might be interesting, but he wants all black. What we do for love!

I'm having a simple dinner and will work on the hat - only have a few days before it needs mailing off!

Sewed the antique gold clasps on the aran cardigan yesterday, but I'm thinking I'd like a pullover version of this as well, which will add more appeal to the pattern. Maybe the Fine Merino - which I need to call about again tomorrow or maybe the Bluefaced Leicester whose info from the UK I'm still waiting on. So much knitting to do!