yarn is very smooth, it is a linen yarn which get both linen and wool’s advantages. soft and smooth to knit as wool with strength of linen. a bit heavier than wool yarn, also rather worsted side than DK.

as far as I love this yarn, had some concerns about the length of a ball. The pattern for S size calls only 750m so I bought 7 balls first, which is estimated 770m. but it was not enough, not only a bit of lack but 2 balls and more than half lacked to complete the garment. It means around 300m difference and it is huge. as of May 2016 there is not much garment finished in this size, so I cannot compare.

One of reason why it happened could depend on the stitch pattern used for the garment. it has 6-row pattern which contains one row which double the whole stitch number and get back to original number in the next row. this takes much yarn. but if it is only because of that, other knitter’s FOs should have same issue. But it doesn’t look like.

also my gauge matched(with needle up) and garment came out with perfect size. So I don’t really understand how this magic happened…

I like quite much the FO, even if it took more yarns and got heavier(almost half a kilo of summer cardi). It will serve a lot this coming summer for me. FO photo to come after blocking.