I got started knittin’ on what will be, at some point WAY WAY WAY in the future, the sweater made from the super-yummy alpaca yarn. As is the case with all well-laid plans, it went completely to shit the second I started the swatch. It looks like a decently thick yarn, but, alas, it would be perfectly happy to knit up at 7, maybe 7.5 stitches to the inch. I’m knitting it at 6, just ‘cos if I don’t I’m not going to have nearly enough yarn to make a sweater with, and that would suck. Bigtime. So, for the time being I will be doing the knitting equivalent of slogging along in knee-deep guanch, with a pack of hungry dogs who would cheerfully eat me if it came right down to it, hoping like hell I don’t get lost and freeze to death. It’s gonna be a long, bumpy ride, but the prize at the end, I think, will be well worth it.

Mush!

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