Whether it’s some sort of enchantment or just my stupid brain thing, I can’t give up on Green Sprite. It’s really nice yarn, and the vision I had (sexy, slash neck/cuffs with a kind of autumn-dryad vibe) just won’t quit. My original design didn’t play out, falling short of yarn. So I unravelled and tried the Coffee Tunic: again, not enough yarn. Is it Green Sprite’s destiny to constantly dance just out of reach of satisfaction? Fear me…
…cos I’ve got plans.
The Essential Tank (Rav link). I love this pattern, but I’m hurtin’ cos my last version was spoiled by the yarn. A nice thick glossy cotton that shrank up on the first wash and now is a bit weird-shaped and too stiff. Hurtin’, I tell ya. I love that pattern because it’s easy, sexy — a well-written pattern spoiled by misbehaving yarn after the fact. On top of this, I lost a bit of weight after making it and now it the whole finished product just doesn’t look that great.
I got out my photocopy of the pattern: bethini of the past, I can only tip my bonnet to you. Throughout the pattern, she’s highlighted the details of each step for the size I made, as well as marked up where adjustments needed to be made for the different row gauge I got with the cotton. I measured the Green Sprite swatch and it is exactly the same as the red cotton. Quirky row gauge and all: Essential Tank and Green Sprite were clearly made for each other.
Unless this is that minxish Green Sprite’s way of toying with me once again.
Casting on in 3…2…
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