This summer I feel like I’m getting increasingly obsessed with bright colours. I’m currently making Audrey in Unst from Twist Collective in the most ludicrously bright yellow Rowan Cotton Glace (it’s shade 825 which I think is called ‘Buttercup’). It’s so bright that when people see it the main reaction is ‘wow….. yellow.’
Try it for yourself:
There you go, I bet you thought, wow, yellow, didn’t you. And not necessarily in a good way. The more I work on it, the more I feel like I’m making it as a muslin for a more wearable version. This is such a great pattern for sportweight yarn, which I have a lot of, and it doesn’t take that much yardage (just 950 yards for my size, which is a 38 1/2). As a result I have loads and loads of yarn options for another one:
- The recommended yarn, Blue Moon Fiber Arts BFL Sport, in Jasper (purple! what a surprise)
- Blue Sky Alpacas Sportweight in green, a discontinued shade
- Madelinetosh Sport in Mansfield Garden Party (this hasn’t arrived yet. It’s on preorder and I’m obsessing over it.)
- Old Maiden Aunt Alpaca/Silk DK/Sportweight in Strange Rock n Rollers (pinky orange, or alternatively, orangey pink)
- Shilasdair Luxury DK, which I can’t get to be a DK tension, it’s blatantly sportweight, pink, dyed with cochineal:
Decisions, decisions.
The Cotton Glace is not massively easy to work with and I do get the sore wrists and hands that are common with working with cotton. However it is more stretchy in the finished fabric than other pure cottons I’ve worked with such as the now discontinued Rowan 4 ply Cotton.
I’m alternating working on Yellow Audrey with this…
It makes me ridiculously happy to look at it. More on this next time…
Beautiful yarn, especially the yellow!