In Which the Pirate Swatches.

I had so much fun swatching the Unicorn Spit that I decided to wash and swatch one of the skeins of Fleece.

Well, really, it was mostly curiosity. The Unicorn Spit was so twisty and knitting up at a gauge much fatter than its WPI would have led me to guess, that I needed to know if the Fleece would do the same. So I gave a skein a bath, let it soak for half an hour, rolled it in a towel, snapped it open a few times, rolled it in another towel and thwapped it on the floor, and then hung it to dry.

It is SO BOUNCY. And again, despite the WPI, it’s knitting up quite nicely on size 8/5mm needles.
(I’d originally swatched this last year on size 6/4mm needles at nearly 5 stitches to the inch, and now I’m thinking that was way too dense.) Apparently if I want yarn that’s actually sport to DK-weight, I’m going to have to spin much, much finer.

I’m going to try a few more textured stitches before I wash and block this, but here’s the swatch in progress: