When I saw Mason Dixon Knitting's headline "Bang Out A Carbeth" Wednesday I was immediately intrigued. That's a super cute sweater and I just happened to have Rebecca Boone yarn burning a hole in my stash. It would be perfect!
The sweater is short and wide. Rebecca Boone is short and wide! We're going to bang it out? Anyone who's gotten between a Cotswold and food has a particularly good understanding of the word "bang"!
20 dug through the stash basket and pulled out Rebecca Boone's pretty silver yarn. He grabbed the Baaxter Black's yarn as well. Just in case.
"Just in case, what, 20?!?"
"That I'd be short on yardage or not be able to get gauge?!?"
"Just sayin'..."
Well, it would have been a game of yarn chicken...if I'd been able to get gauge :-(. Looks like we're going to [Baaxter] Out A Carbeth. There is enough yardage and the gauge was spot on. The only thing I'm not 100% sure on is his color.
By itself, it's not bad. It's a darkish grayish brownish with an almost tweedy quality. Next to the shimmery silver Cotswold though it looks a bit drab. I may be letting that sway me. And I shouldn't.
Still, I cut a few short samples and mixed up some possible overdyes.
One thing I really enjoyed about the Elizabeth shawl was the use of color over her grays. Baaxter didn't let me down either.
Even though muted by the darkish grayish brownish, I felt like the colored colors were too...colorful.
These two were my favorite. You're shocked, right? I like both of these naturally looking browns. I like Baaxter's real natural color as well. Any thoughts?
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