I bought weird yarn this time, which in my defence seemed less funky when I bought it. I just got lured in by the fact that it was on sale and I do mean LURED, because I’ve spent many hours afterwards wondering what this should be:

It’s cotton yarn, made by Lammy, which is a Dutch yarn company. They make many types of yarn, of varying fibres and weights, however there seems to be an issue with this one. The label clearly says that it’s 100% cotton and iron-able. The web-page of this particular type of yarn, called flame, says that it’s in fact some sort of acrylic cotton blend. I’m not quite sure what to think except for the fact that it certainly feels cotton-y, so at there must be some of it in it.

I’ve managed to acquire 5 balls of these, of about 125m per ball. I tried to make a Juno Regina stole out of it, because I am enamoured with said stole (Anybody remember my knit-o-lutions? I’ve veered off drastically, or rather keep on adding more and more in my ravelry queue) , but it didn’t work. The fluffy bits distracted from the general loveliness that is the Regina stole and it just looked, well, fugly. So I decided to skip the lace and work it into a Springtime bandit shawl. Said shawl is lacy, to a degree, but is more solid than lacy and the yarn thus far looks very well in it.

As for the second type of yarn I bought:

This is some sort of wool/acrylic combo, half and half actually. Now this I did buy with a pattern in mind, which has some sort of a back-story to it.  You see, I quite like the brioche stitch, or how it looks, especially in the fourteen pattern. And despite becoming very confused about how it works I still wanted to do it. Eventually I did figure out how to do it, or at the very least make it look like brioche stitch.

Just to help out anybody who is still getting horrendously lost: Follow the instructions on this page, except for row 1 where you do YO, Sl 1, Knit one, instead of Yo, Sl 1, K2tog.

After that it’s simply a matter of repeating row 2 ad infinitum. For binding off I’d advise this site, since it seems to be dedicated to the brioche stitch.

Back to the story: After figuring out how to do it, I bought this yarn to make me a fourteen neck warmer and the rest is history. Or well, the rest actually involves making said neck warmer for I haven’t made any real headway yet. Oh dear.