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| Ebbie cardigan in Brooklyn Tweed Dapple |
I knitted this in the 3rd size and the pattern called for 9 skeins of Dapple. I bought 10 so I would have a selection and I ended up using 8 and made the sleeves longer.
This pattern has more K1, M1, K2TOG and SSK that you can imagine. With close to 300 stitches on the needle, I highly recommend to use markers to divide the sections that repeat, because if not you would not be able to find your mistakes. I got to a stitch count checkpoint and realized I had 9 more stitches. With all the M1, it is hard to unravel row by row too. So I just did 9 more SSK to compensate.
I labeled all the skeins from light to dark so I could go from dark in the center to light on the sleeves. But as my experience with Brooklyn Tweed quality, there seems to be a knot in 50% of the skeins, so one of the skeins had a knot in it and a totally different tone variation which created the darker stripe on the left side. I thought about not using that but then I would not have enough on the left sleeve and would have to use another tone variation, so I kept going instead.
Each section is built upon the rest of the garment, and it was getting too hot even though the yarn is wool/cotton mix. I finished May 2, 2022, and by then it is too hot in North Texas to even wear it in air condition. I did not block it since it is very soft and looked good as is.
A friend of mine bought me a gift card for my birthday and I decided that I am going to knit this again in Plinth, which would cos less “stress” on color placement.
Towards the end of summer, BT had their 3rd annual virtual warehouse sale and I was able to get 8 skeins of Dapple in the color Currant.
I paid $4 a skein for Dapple seconds (plus shipping) and I got a wide assortment of color variation. Only 2 skeins remotely matched each other. I also got a lot of loose strands in the skeins which make untangling very challenging. It took me 2 hours to wind 8 skeins of yarn.
I had to weigh each skein since they are either short or over 50 g. I then had to only use half of each skein for each side to allow or the next side so hopefully both side will have the same gradient.
I have had problems with tangled yarn in BT Peerie twice and they were so tangled that I had to hand wind them. This time with these seconds in Dapple, I know that this problem exists and had not been corrected. Buying seconds is one thing but paying full price is another. I also buy a lot of Purl Soho and never had this problem.
I have a huge proponent of buying American but these American mills either need to make the correction or label the yarn as seconds and twice I notify BT. I do not think I will buy any more Peerie full price. (My current Suburban is a special custom order from Chevy and it was made in a factory 5 miles from my home).
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| Loose strands in skeins to make untangling more challenging |
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| Color variation in 8 skeins. |
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