I've been obsessed with this pattern ever since it came out, and at the beginning of June, I finally cast on with some Road to China Light I bought at Doodlebug Yarn. I chose Carnelian, which I thought was going to be more reddish in color (those laptop screens can really fool me sometimes!); it turned out to be more of a purple-red - I'd call it a mauve almost. I was weighing my options between Carnelian and Garnet and probably should have gone the other way when I placed my order. At any rate, it was a surprise, but I decided to just go with it and start knitting. I tend to buy the same colors of yarn over and over again, so sometimes the caveat emptor of online yarn purchasing is a good way to get me out of such color ruts.
RtC is a super-soft blend of baby alpaca, silk, camel and cashmere. Yep, it's incredibly soft! I used my Cubics special interchangeables (they're great for hats and cowls, hence I am now obsessed with them) and quickly realized that this pattern will knit up much faster if I cabled without a cable needle. I probably could have knit this in a week if crazy life events hadn't conspired against me, but at least I finished it before the month of June was out. It may have taken an additional few weeks to photograph and blog about it, but that just seems to be par for the course lately!
RtC is a super-soft blend of baby alpaca, silk, camel and cashmere. Yep, it's incredibly soft! I used my Cubics special interchangeables (they're great for hats and cowls, hence I am now obsessed with them) and quickly realized that this pattern will knit up much faster if I cabled without a cable needle. I probably could have knit this in a week if crazy life events hadn't conspired against me, but at least I finished it before the month of June was out. It may have taken an additional few weeks to photograph and blog about it, but that just seems to be par for the course lately!
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