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I have absolutely no affiliation with KnitPicks, but I have ordered from them several times in the past and I think they are great. So, when I saw that Tahki New Tweed is one of their new special offers, I had to share. I bought 12 balls of this in a light blue color (at Knitter's Niche in Chicago) to make Blue Cardie and I just love the yarn. It is 70% merino wool, 15% silk, 11% cotton, 4% viscose. Very soft and so easy to knit with.

On another note, Fuchsia is coming along nicely. I am finally down to 200 stitches (you start by casting on 500!!) and I'm knitting in the round. Pictures when I have more to show.

Wednesday I came down with Startitis. Despite my previous bad experience with felting Kureyon, I decided to try again. This time things went right. It's okay to make mistakes, but it's really great when you learn from them. I love my new bag and it is happily carrying my current sock in progress.

Startitis struck again on Saturday:

Here is Fuchsia from the 2001 Dale of Norway Svale book. I'm verry happy that this is knit in the round up to the arms. The flouncy part on the bottom has been a challenge though. You have to cast on 500 stitches to start. Ugh. That is a lot of stitches to have crammed on one circular needle. So, while it might not look like much, I am almost through my first skein of yarn (and this only takes 10 skeins!)

Here's what it will look like when I'm all done: