Eep. That midi set of 4 Knitter's Pride Karbonz knitting needles I bought for £22 a couple of days ago is back to its normal price - £60. That's higher than on Amazon US and under the KnitPro brand in a couple of UK shops, but even so I'm glad I hit the buy button.

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Amazon: Oh hi, you've been looking at knitting needles. How about the Knitter's Pride Karbonz midi set with 4/5/5.5/6 tips plus cables? Only £22 when individual Knitter's Pro branded points are usually £12?

Me: Get thee behind me, S... click

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Not sure if I have the patience to Navajo ply 1500 m of slightly uncooperative yarn, though. I might stick to the Huj Tub idea, although given that's probably going to involve magic loop I can foresee fun with that.

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So I've tried the KnitPro Trendz acrylic points and they are doing a much better job of holding this laceweight yarn than the birch and metal points were. Almost too good. :-) I can see why people don't like them for grippier yarns, but they're fine for this one.

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Yarn is "roughly a 1/14NM cashmere yarn, with a metallized plastic strand twisted in". I suppose I could try the Trendz 4.5 or 5.5 points I have to test it, and then buy 5.0 if necessary.

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It's a lovely sunny day and I want to do some knitting while I can see fine yarn. I know what yarn I want to swatch as Navajo ply. Can I find it?

Maybe I shouldn't have bought So Much Colourmart. And it's not in that box. Off to try the other places it might be.

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Ok, I have one more round of ribbing, and then I can bind off the body of this sweater.

Then on to the sleeves!

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This Dark Academia sweater might be finished before the heat death of the universe #AmKnitting #FiberArts

Why to knit a gauge swatch:
1) to check the gauge
2) to discover that trying to knit that yarn on those needles will drive you berserk within four rows.

Abandon ship...

(Chunky on 5.5/6 mm. Yes, really. And still only have 10 stitches/10 cm when pattern says 12 on that size.)

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I did indeed get home to 350 gm of cashmere, plus a couple of small cones. Alas, it is too late in the year for it to be still daylight when I get home, so taking photos of the pretties to put on Ravelry will have to wait until the weekend.
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Got home to a parcel (hopefully) containing 1 kg of camel hair yarn. Tomorrow it will be joined by a 350g cone of cashmere. I foresee gauge swatches in my near future.
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I already have Too Much Stash, but wondering what I could make with 1kg of fingering weight camelhair yarn or 300g of light fingering cashmere, currently at such stupidly low sale prices at my favourite enabler that either option would be about £50.
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Charity shop loot: 5 unused and two part used balls of Debbie Bliss Rialto Aran in original 10 ball wrapper for £5. These are usually £6 each. Supposed to be decluttering, not adding, but it's a cheap way to find out if superwash merino irritates my sensitive skin. :-)

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I have been tidying my room, or at least my stash. I suppose it's juuuuust possible I should knit some of it up before buying any more.
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My mom sent me her entire yarn stash ... which is lovely.

But she carefully wound most of the skeins into balls; I've only found one with its label still intact. I can figure out the weights, but the fiber content, brand, colorway, etc., are going to be subject to a lot of guesswork.

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An enabler pointed out that Third Vault Yarns is doing a dye run of the Glasgow Worldcon colourways, orders closing on Friday. So I have 100g of Skein Dubh in Selkie DK heading my way next week. I still have the Ytterbium colourway sitting in my stash, so I really need to start knitting some of my lovely, lovely yarn to make room for more...

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Ich hab heute so viel gearbeitet, da musste ich zum Runterkommen noch ein bisschen stricken.
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Maybe I should just see if I can find a 20 pack of wool needles...

That's two grey Pony ones and two violently coloured Zings that have disappeared from the tools tray in the last month.

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