Asking for it
By JC | November 18, 2011
Speaking of never having enough yarn or time to play with it, look what came in the mail yesterday:
more yarn!
Yup, it’s a bag of Mirasol Nuna, destined to become a Swirl. I’ve done enough swatching to know that its blend of wool, silk, and bamboo has just the right balance of bounce, drape, and sheen. The bag of 10 skeins seems awfully small for completing a Swirl… but then again, I have to remind myself that a sweater’s worth of DK-weight doesn’t take up nearly as much room as a sweater’s worth of aran-weight.
The new skeins are a slightly different color than the skein I had been swatching, but that’s okay:
Prussian Blue rather than Myrtle
Not okay is the fact that I’m still swatching to find the right needle size. Swatching Nuna on 3.75 mm needles gave me 22 sts per 4", swatching String Theory Selku on 3.5 mm needles gave me 23 sts per 4"… and swatching Nuna again on 3.25 mm gave me a whopping 26 sts per 4". Go figure. As you can see above, on days when I’ve given my Estonian shawl enough attention, I’m trying Nuna with 3.5 mm needles; we’ll see if that gets me close enough to the target of 24 sts per 4". If it doesn’t… eh, I’ll probably go ahead with 3.5 mm needles anyway, and finagle the final Swirl to desired size via assertive blocking. Am I asking for it, do you think?
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