The Warm Purple People Eater
Finished
October 19, 2025
November 7, 2025

The Warm Purple People Eater

Project info
Shawl : Dandy by Brome Fields
Knitting
Neck / TorsoShawl / Wrap
Me, as usual.
Needles & yarn
Knit Picks Fluff of the Andes
436 yards in stash
Knit Picks
July 24, 2025
Notes

10/19/2025

11/22/2025 Blocked and finished! It is beautiful and so warm. The only issue I had with this was the yarn pulling apart if I tugged even slightly--but that goes along with single ply yarn. It blocked very nicely and occupied the entire top of my dining table.

11/7/2025 Finished using one of the remaining two skeins and a bit of the 4th. It was large enough. I have to wait until a jumbo tapestry needle arrives to weave in all the ends. There are a lot because of the single-ply yarn’s tendency to pull apart. I am using it as a shawl even with all of the loose ends. It is that cozy!

11/2/2025
Finished and bound off the shawl at 55” diameter. It seems far smaller than I had expected, so I ripped out the bindoff and began knitting again, intended to use up my remaining two skeins. This will make it a HUGE shawl, but that’s OK!

10/19/2025
This triangle scarf is progressing very quickly once I figured out how to do the backward loop increase. I have been knitting for decades and had never done it before. This video from KnitWit Me explains it all:
https://youtu.be/Y-Din0r5NKc?si=jTSjHNRwQem2z4CH

I am using Knit Pick’s new yarn, Fluff of the Andes, a single-ply super bulky yarn. It is soft and beautiful but has a tendency to pull apart, resulting in several places where I have had to re-attach the yarn. The key is to keep your stitches very loose and not pull or tighten anything. If you use a plied yarn like Wool-Ease (the recommended yarn) you won’t not have this problem.

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by Knit Picks
Super Bulky
100% Wool
109 yards / 200 grams

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  • Project created: October 19, 2025
  • Updated: November 19, 2025
  • Progress updates: 3 updates