For the four years I've knitted off and on, I've always loved fat, fulsome, felty wools. Usually black or grey, true, but lush and forgiving and knitted up large. Now I've fallen in love with a set of sterner fibers: silk wrapped around steel; fine linen twine; papery cotton bands knitted on slender needles. Where once I could make up half a sweater, I now spend hours knitting a few delicate inches, and I'm thrilled with the results.
I started my Paper Crane cardigan moments after my Habu order arrived in the mail today. The natural linen is beautiful, with a sheen like a dove's feather, or a grey pearl. 350 stitches is quite the cast-on for somebody like me, but the knitted-up fabric is proving well worth the effort. I need to find the perfect pearly button for this beauty.
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It's a nice thing to perfect and enjoy - the finer yarns and the japanese thoughts/patterns. I am slowly getting there myself.
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