featherweight chunky

We have this amazing stock of Regia sock yarn, designed by Kaffe Fasset in the texture and colours of hand spun, hand dyed knitting yarn.

However it is sock yarn, requiring very small needles and a particular amount and kind of time. I found this book, written in 1910 by Arnold Bennet, available (and free) on the Gutenberg site, called "How to Live on 24 Hours a Day.The author suggests dedicating 90 minutes 3 times a week for self improvement in a practical and so very charming way.  I firmly believe, knitting can be a wonderful character building exercise, and feel the habit falls perfectly into Mr. Bennet's philosophy.

Just this very spring I completed a cabled Debbie Bliss cardigan using Mr. Bennet's method. I loved working on it, and had lots of opportunity to practice perseverance. Focus and discipline are a must for me living every day in immersed in colourful, textured yarn wonderfull-ness .

Wanting to knit the Regia moved me to create a featherweight chunky by using used one strand of Kaffe's yarn and one strand of Drops Vivaldi mini mohair on 6 mm needles. The increased thickness and loft combined with an elegantly simple stitch pattern worked very well.

I have 28.2 grams remaining, creating a bonus stripe candidate for the The 12 Baby Jumpers of 2018.

I used the One Row Scarf pattern, by Stephanie Pearl McPhee.

and blocked it just like the Wisp scarf I knit in the winter.

Congratulations to me, another soft and wonderful knit lives here.