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Yarn used: Soy Wool Stripes by Patons, in "Natural Earth". F-. Would not use again. Needles: 4.25mm by Boyes. Don't buy the size 6 needles expecting them to be 4mm just because it says so on the label — it ain't so.

It's just that… well, this yarn has Issues. It splits (it's not plied per se), and then there's the color factor. The stripes are very, very pretty — but you also have to match them up precisely.

Which would be easier if the yarn didn't have constant breaks (cemented together by knots). And the breaks wouldn't be so awful if they didn't tend to splice the yarn together at random color points. Or, sometimes, you get a really awful spit-splice in the middle of your yarn that triples the width of a black stripe. Or two colors that aren't in sequence might get matched up. Seriously. This blew, and the first one wasn't a picnic, either. I won't be buying this yarn again, and I can't recommend it to you guys, either. Patons? EPIC FAIL.

The remnants of three balls of yarn. There's about another eight inches of stripes here — but not in a sequence I can use to extend the length of the scarf as it is.

On the bright side, FloppenCousin is extremely cute.

"Yes, I made this scarf!" says FloppenCousin. "Or at least I am posed very attractively with it." (Actually, she said "Baa! Baa baa baa? Baa! Baa baa! Baa baa baa baa!" — so I am translating.

It's hard not to forgive a project when a cute sheep is atop it.

Smile for the camera, girls!

Yarn used: Lion Brand Microspun in Lily White, Royal Blue, and (now discontinued) Silver Grey. Hook used: G (4.25mm).

The pattern (as noted last time) is from Lion Brand (registration required), but now that you can see the finished elekk, you can see all my modifications. It's the legs, the tusks, the helmet, saddle, and banners that make her an elekk, and I left off a lot of the detail. Still — very cute, no?

 Also in the works: a new scarf (same as the old scarf):

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Yarn used: SWS [Soy Wool] from Patons. Needle size: Supposedly 4mm, from Boyes, but it is a LIE. They're closer to 4.25mm.

Last time I posed ÃœnterSchëpenfloppen with the scarf; now I'm posing the scarf with FloppenCousin, a close (but larger) relative. The pattern is the same (Farrow Rib), and the colorway is the same (Natural Earth). This scarf is being done by request, and unless someone else I really love wants something made out of this fabric, that's it for me — it splits even more than Microspun, which is saying something! Still, it's very soft and looks really nice.

Yarn used: The now-discontinued Merino Light in maroon (#8 on the color card). Needles used: US10.5 — 6.5mm.

Beautiful Sheep bleats hello!  Here's our check-in to see how I'm doing on the Bog Jacket. Answer: Quite well; I'm nearly up to the bit where I split off the arms and add some more stitches to the arms. It stopped being mindless garter when I had to do waist shaping (waist shaping is my friend, since I have a quite large bustline and quite small waist), and I'm sort of sorry for that, as I was enjoying having something I didn't have to look at at all. But it seems to be working out nicely, and the yarn is much, much nicer-looking on 6.5mm needles than it was on 4.5mm needles.

Thursday I hope to have a finished SWS plus a bit of progress on that Bog Jacket.  Maybe something exciting like the arm-dividing bit?  We'll see.