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Ironstone wasn’t joking when they called this yarn “Showstopper”. But the question is, what is the look on everyone’s face when the show stops? Awe or “Eww”??

This thing takes absolutely no time to make. The yarn cost a fortune 9 years ago, but it was a gift, so no loss there. LET’S DO IT. LET’S LOOK LIKE CHEWBACCA AT HIS OWN BIRTHDAY PARTY!

It’s my first ever Drops pattern and I like it. Great detail on the collar: you do a bunch of center stitches in garter for 2 rows and then decrease outside of the garter for the neckline. This makes a very neat neck that needs no extra collar picked up after sewing up. Must remember that for the future!

I didn’t use the sleeve instructions, I just did my picked-up set-in sleeve short row method. My formula is in this blog post. It was nice to test it in this ridiculously different gauge and the formula still works!

It’s pretty short and I still have a skein after my sleeves and body. I’m going to undo the bottom and lengthen it in the round.