In addition to my purchases yesterday, I also bought some yarn from a local yarn shop here in Spånga for a brown cardigan.

This yarn is thicker than anything I’ve used for a sweater before, and the label recommended 6 mm needles. The largest “normal” needles I had were 5 mm, so I knitted up a swatch with those first, but I did want to do another with the recommended needle size.

The only 6 mm needles I had were these old wooden ones, that I’ve only used for teaching Ingrid and Adrian to knit. They were like sticks in my hands, and I felt like I was play-acting knitting. I didn’t like the look of the result, either – it was floppy and thin – so luckily I’ll be using the more normal 5 mm needles for the cardigan itself.