I have been swatching...and swatching...and--well, you get the idea--with this slubby stuff I spun earlier this year from some batts I got at last year's OFFF [1]. The colors are various shades of purple from mauve to lilac to eggplant, a soft periwinkle blue, and bits of other oddments. It's mostly wool but there's some angora, silk, and possibly something like soy silk or tencel in there just to confuse me.

This stuff evaded all efforts to be made into something. I swatched on big needles, smaller ones, open patterns, closed, garter, stockinette, in the round, lace--nothing. It all sucked.

Finally in desperation I actually cracked open my pattern books. I don't like using patterns; I hate having to drag a book around or copy off the pattern blah blah blah. Annoying. So imagine my joy when I found a pattern in Scarf Style that barely qualifies as a pattern. It's just a length of feather and fan [2] in fancy yarn.

But! it was just what was needed. I cast on and viola! apparently this yarn wanted to be a feather and fan scarf, because it's working up nicely. I'm not sure if I'm keeping it for myself or if I'll put it in the gift pile. What gift pile, I don't have a gift pile going at all this year. I have a pair of socks waiting for my mom when she gets here next month and that's about it for the gift pile. True, I don't have a scarf, but this stuff fought me so hard I'm not sure I trust putting it round me neck.

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