In Which the Pirate Swatches.

Remember the Unicorn Spit?

I wound up one skein of it for swatching, because the Pirate Socks are still in time-out and I didn’t want to disturb them. Here’s where things get weird: I’m getting 10-11 wraps per inch on this yarn, so it should be a heavy DK or light worsted weight yarn. But it was a little tight to knit on size 8/5mm needles, and much more pleasant on size 9/5.5mm needles, where I’m getting four stitches to the inch, making it… heavy worsted? Aran? What even.

The other problem is that it is TWISTY. I’m sure that I washed these skeins before I put them away, so I know the twist is supposedly set, but whooooo it’s impossible to knit with as is. I had to stop every yard or so to let the work dangle and untwist the next bit of yarn. This isn’t workable for a whole piece, so I’ll probably end up running it through the wheel ‘backwards’ to untwist it a bit, and then re-soak it, and see if that helps.

“But I wanted a firm and durable and round yarn!” says past-me, the spinner who apparently overplied the heck out of this stuff. Ah well. It’s still fixable.

The swatch isn’t showing any bias because of all the untwisting, so at least I know that it can knit up nicely… at four stitches to the inch: