A Better Yarn Post

I scored two new skeins of yarn for my stash yesterday:

A pretty coral-pink (semi-solid) laceweight wool from Handpainted Yarns. This is not the merino laceweight though, so I’ll still need to keep my eyes out for some Malabrigo Lace Baby in a colorway I can’t do without.

And a skein of Sleeping Dragon Yarns Hand Painted merino fingering-weight yarn, in colorway “Pool” – a lovely blend of blues and greenish-blues. I’d like to make a scarf or small shawl from it, rather than socks. Have I mmmmentioned how much I love mmmmerino?

And on the WIP WPI front, I checked the wraps per inch on all of the skeins of Classic Elite Skye Tweed from yesterday’s debacle. Two of the 13 skeins I bought measure in at 9 WPI, while the rest are 10 WPI. One of the two “9″s is, of course, the one I swatched with. The other was in a sealed pack of 5 skeins, where the others were all 10′s. Gee, no wonder I was having swatch and gauge problems. The good news is that the 11 “good” skeins will be plenty for making the cardigan. It’s a good thing I decided to do this one, instead of using the yarn for the Central Park Hoodie. I would have been cutting it close with the yardage even using all 13 skeins.