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.