SS 10/10
CO L35-R35 in 2x2 rib. L34, 33 on Ribber, R35 on ribber to facilitate seaming.
This yarn is pretty challenging to knit, even on the bulky machine. It’s very lumpy, and does not flow smoothly through the yarn mast, or the cartridges. I wound it into cones, and that helped, but still somewhat slow going.

Each panel is about 2.8 skeins.

It is THE softest, squishiest fabric ever. I think this will be a popular blanket for snuggling under.

2024-03-04 Ended up knitting 240 rows for each of 3 panels. This yarn was SO hard to knit at first. When I started the second panel, I wound the yarn onto cones. That helped a lot. Then about 1/2 way through panel #2 I sprayed the cones with yarn spray, and WHAT A DIFFERENCE!! The carriage was SOOOooo much easier to push. I completed the remaining knitting in a single sitting. Now to stitch up.

It was really awkward to seam. Because of the nature of this yarn (basically variegated roving, spun with a black thread), it’s hard to tell where the stitches are, plus they’re huge. Nothing shows because of the thickness of the yarn, and because of all the different colors. The seams ended up being too tight. I think the next one I will just overlap the edges and do a running back stitch for more stretchiness in the seam.

I will make the next one longer and narrower. It really stretches side-to-side, so doesn’t need to be as wide. It’s super warm, really beautiful, and very heavy! After using it for a while, I think that just the 2 panels (total 140 stitches wide) is perfectly adequate, because it is soooooo stretchy. And increase length by a little more than 1/4, maybe to 320 rows.

210sts x 240rows = 50,400sts
160sts x 320rows = 51,200sts
A difference of only 800sts