{"id":13747,"date":"2020-10-31T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13747"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:32:37","slug":"daily_2117_-_black_yarns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/10\/31\/daily_2117_-_black_yarns\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2117 &#8211; black yarns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2117_swatching.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nTrying to decide on the right yarn or yarns for my cardigan.<\/p>\n<p>Left to right: Rauma Inca Alpakka (100% alpaca), Rauma Finull (100% wool), Sandnes Tynn Silk Mohair (57% mohair, 15% wool, 28% silk).<\/p>\n<p>I made a swatch with the wool and mohair together, with a few different needle sizes. Then another with the wool on its own. I wasn&#8217;t quite satisfied with any of them. The wool and mohair combo was a bit too thick. The wool on its own &#8211; too scratchy. (At first when knitting with the wool and mohair together, I started wondering if the mohair made any difference at all. It&#8217;s so thin, doesn&#8217;t it get lost among all the wool? Feeling the two side by side removed all doubt.)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should have tried some merino wool after all&#8230; When I felt the merino yarns in the shop, they all felt too smooth and bland, so I didn&#8217;t buy any. But perhaps it would have worked out together with the mohair?<\/p>\n<p>Today I went and bought a ball of alpaca yarn and knitted yet another swatch with alpaca + mohair, and then one more with some leftover alpaca yarn from the green cardigan, again together with the mohair.<\/p>\n<p>The alpaca\/mohair combination is a clear winner. Softer than lambswool, fluffier than merino &#8211; so lovely to touch!<\/p>\n<p>And in the photo it all just looks black.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2117_swatching_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to decide on the right yarn or yarns for my cardigan. Left to right: Rauma Inca Alpakka (100% alpaca), Rauma Finull (100% wool), Sandnes Tynn Silk Mohair (57% mohair, 15% wool, 28% silk). I made a swatch with the wool and mohair together, with a few different needle sizes. Then another with the wool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13748,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13747\/revisions\/13748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}