Yarn comes in so many different varieties… I want to “taste” them all!
I finished a beautiful project recently, based off of pictures like these of cowls I’ve seen in stores and fashion magazines as well as some knitting magazines, but I’m using this yarn in color 04 – Wine. It is divine, and I sent it to my friend (actually the wife of the friend who’s getting the Mario & Luigi scarf!).
The biggest challenge I have had with using this yarn is that it is slubbed.
A slub is (according to the Free Online Dictionary):
2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a loosely twisted roll of fibre prepared for spinning.
I’m using a yarn that fits definition #1. The first challenge was casting on with slubbed yarn. I looked through Google – no luck. I looked through YouTube – no luck. I looked at the website for the yarn itself – no luck.
What I wanted to know was whether to knit as usual using a looser tension with the slubbed parts and a normal tension with the skinny parts or whether I ought to leave the slubbed parts hanging as I knit.
Well, I’ve figured out what I prefer, and it’s the former. Use a loose tension when you cast on and thick needles – I’m using American 13 – and you’ll wind up with a very funky-looking fabric, like this!
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