Yes, I'll confess it, I'm now on Plan C--or it may be Plan D by now. This is my fourth yarn for the Pax shawlette CAL, if you count my "practice" piece. The bamboo was too slippery, and the beautiful hand-dyed, mint-colored yarn from Knitwit is too...slippery, too. That's the only way to describe it; the stitches just slide around and it's difficult for me to find the proper posts and bars to pick up. No doubt more experienced knitters wouldn't have trouble but I had been fighting it and getting more and more tense as I progressed so I finally threw in the towel. This is supposed to be fun, right?
Now, it is absolutely not the beauty or quality of the yarn, just the quality of the knitter!! I will be saving the yarns from Plans B and C for other projects.
So, I'm back to using the baby alpaca that i used on the interminable sweater that I recently finished knitting. It's a little heavier weight and I could perhaps use a larger crochet hook with it, but I'm going to see how this works out. It is SO much easier to crochet and I'm having fun with the pattern again.
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