I met up with Shelly from Fun Knits Yarn Shop today and picked up the wool for the Kauni cardigan. We had a nice visit and she showed me her Kauni cardigan in its final stages...casting off the body and just about to steek. Yikes!
According to the pattern, I should be good with 3 balls but I got 5 just in case. Nothing worse than running out of wool. If I have leftovers, I can make a hat or scarf or mitts. The great thing about this wool is that it doesn't matter what the colours are. All the colours repeat themselves. As long as you start one ball on a different colour repeat from the other ball, you're ok. Fair Isle effect without the zillions of ends to darn in at the end.
I am not going to start this until I've done at least 10" of the cardigan. And I'm waiting for my new needles to arrive.
Yup.
Edited to add:
The silk noil nicely plyed...
Oh! The silk is lovely. It's interesting to see the new format for the Kauni too. My ballwinder is very jealous. ;) It's still recovering!
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