I love the holiday but don't have any pranks for it but I did stop by at my lys with intent on finding yarn for either another shawl or to be easily tempted into taking on a cardigan project for spring. I ended up taking on the latter and managed to cast-on for Knitted DROPS's Bolero.
I found (and fell in love with) a color of linen yarn by Katia dubbed "Lino %100" from The Knitting Room. It's definitely rougher on the hands to knit with than the wools that I'm used to but I've been intrigued by the properties endowed upon linen that animal fibers and cotton doesn't usually possess such as its lovely take to vibrant dyes, its fibrous strength, and its curious nature of getting softer with frequent wear and wash achieving for a luscious drape. Linen is supposed to also be a very cool fiber, excellent for the more humid Wisconsin summer season. All I know is I had to knit with it especially when I found some in a gorgeous turquoise reminiscent of a robin's egg blue.
Seriously, it's pretty freaking blue.
.................>I started casting on at the coffee shop during a game of chess with Jen. Don't worry, I won with three queens...even I'm not sure how I managed that one given I didn't really pay as much attention as she was to the game.
I have to say, though, the yarn at first was difficult to work with on the hands just because the texture is rather coarse and fiberous. I've worked with linen mixed in with other fibers like wool or alpaca before so usually there is a bit better give and take when manipulating the yarn without wearing out your hands. Still, with a little patience and effort, after a while even I found working with the linen pleasurable given how lovely it looks in the lacework of the bolero pattern. I may consider doing a shawl in this specific yarn in the future if it looks as lovely all finished up as it appears on my needles.
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