24 October, but w/o internet access...
So I have these cones of indigo cotton yarn...
It's 4-ply, but fairly small diameter despit this. Each of the cones is perhaps as much as 450g, and I have no clue how many metres. I think about 800 or so, maybe as much as 1000.
Just before we got under way this evening (and there's an entire story *there*...) I knit up a quickish swatch at SS 6.5 in plain stockinette... it seems to be a bit more open than it might be for a work jersey. But at the same time it's not a fun material to work with on the machine, dragging through with loads of friction and little hope of getting any easier if I tighten up the tension a wee bit. And there was an odd screw-up... a dropped stitch or three, plus another edge needle which seems to have refused to knit or tuck for a bunch of rows.
If I can work out those problems, I'm thinking of knitting up a cotten version of a Guernsey-style sweater. I'm thinking heartlessly plain, with a 1" bit of 2x2 industrial rib at the top of each sleeve, and the reversed seam on the top of the shoulders, plus a gusset under each arm and smaller ones on each shoulder at the neck.
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