Simply Stripes

Pattern: Ladies’ Striped or Plain Tank Top by Sarah Hatton (Rowan Pure Wool Family Collection)

Yarn: Rowan Pure Wool DK in Ultra-Marine (009) and Cypress (007).

Needles: 3.75mm and 4.5mm bamboo circulars. I had to go up in needle size to achieve the correct tension.

Babble: I had originally intended to make something completely different out of the Pure Wool DK, so now I’m left with 3 whole balls and most of a fourth to play with, out of my original total of 11. (If anyone’s wondering how that math works, the dye-lot I had matched some that one of my coworkers had bought, so I gave her 3 to make up enough for the Ladies Cabled Tank Top from the same book.)

I really, truly enjoyed knitting with this wool, enough so that I actually managed to stay mostly monogamous and finish the garment in 10 days time. 9, if you subtract the evening I slipped and cheated on it with some Cashsoft 4-ply. It knits beautifully and noticably softens after washing, but will fluff a bit. It’s just one of those things you gotta live with, and personally, I really don’t mind a bit of fuzziness. As long as I don’t look like an overgrown muppet I’m happy.

The only thing that disappointed me were my needles. Both my 40cm 3.75s and 4.5s broke while I was knitting, right at the cable join. This makes me a sad panda.