My SSKAL15 project is moving slooooowly. Even with all of the lovely comments suggesting Carpino for my swatches, my thoughts were still on Element quite a bit. I didn’t want to use the Cascade Fingering for that, but instead I wanted to tear out this sweater and salvage the beautiful beautiful Socks that Rock yarn for something I would wear more often. Don’t get me wrong, Rocky Coast is a beautiful sweater, but it slips down my shoulders terribly and I made it far too long, and I really am more of a fan of cardigans I can wrap myself in completely. I ripped out half of it, reset the yarn, swatched in the round, blocked my swatches, and thought and thought and thought. Then I flipped a coin.
Sometimes all you need is to actually flip the coin and while it’s in the air you know what you really want. I decided even though the coin toss determined Element in Socks that Rock, my heart said Carpino in Cascade Fingering.
But before that all happened I spent $24 on patterns just to study them. I have Marshall, Carpino, and Element and all the lovely information that goes along with them. Regardless, I finally got going on Carpino and here is where I’m at: