{"id":2696,"date":"2015-07-27T18:13:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T18:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annetarsia.com\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2015-07-27T19:03:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T19:03:30","slug":"caterpillar-green-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/2015\/07\/caterpillar-green-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Caterpillar Green love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caterpillar Green yarns<\/a> have been on my radar for awhile.\u00a0 The last straw was seeing Stephanie Pearl-McFee knitting with it at YarnFest. She was crazy in love with it, so I put it on my list of things to check out.\u00a0 I\u00a0 signed up for the mailing list, and when a shop order came up, I splurged and bought a few skeins.\u00a0 Caterpillar green dyes the yarn so that if you knit any triangular shawl that has standard increases along the sides and up the middle, the stripes will form evenly and effortlessly.<\/p>\n

When the skeins arrived, they didn’t really look different than any other hand-dyed skein, but when wound up you can see that the layers of color are very even in the wound cake.\u00a0 The first skein I reached for was “Finger paint”, but I didn’t feel like making a triangular shawl.\u00a0 Why make it easy?\u00a0 So, I started to work short-row stripes, instead.\u00a0 It took a bit to find my rhythm, so the beginning is a little wonky.\u00a0 But then I settled into a system that I am very happy with.\u00a0 I worked the solid colors in short rows until I hit the color change that is varigated, and then knit those bits all the way from side to side.\u00a0 When the color changed to solid color, I did short rows from the opposite side worked last time.\u00a0 This turned out to be more a scarf than a shawl, and I really like it.<\/p>\n

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What I did not expect was how much I would love the feel of the yarn.\u00a0 This is 70% superwash merino, 20% cashmere, and 10% nylon, so I expected it to be nice.\u00a0 But, it is spectacular.\u00a0 Super soft, amazingly cozy, I could knit with this for the rest of my life.\u00a0 After finishing the short row project, I immediately wound up the “Concrete and Tulips” skein.\u00a0 This time, I played it safe and knit a triangular “Boneyard” shawl, by Stephen West.\u00a0 I think I am the only knitter left on earth who hasn’t knit one, and this seemed a great yarn for it.\u00a0 It worked up too quickly, and is now blocking.<\/p>\n

This has been a rough month for me, personally, and this yarn has been the perfect comfort knitting.\u00a0 I can’t recommend it enough.<\/p>\n

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Close up of the Boneyard shawl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Caterpillargreen yarn in Concrete and Tulips colorway. Pattern: Boneyard by Stephen West<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Close up of the short row stripes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Caterpillargreen yarn in Fingerpaint colorway. Pattern: short row stripes dicated by color changes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caterpillar Green yarns have been on my radar for awhile.\u00a0 The last straw was seeing Stephanie Pearl-McFee knitting with it at YarnFest. She was crazy in love with it, so I put it on my list of things to check out.\u00a0 I\u00a0 signed up for the mailing list, and when a shop order came up, […]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[217,215,218,216,35],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-blog","tag-boneyard","tag-caterpillar-green","tag-short-rows","tag-stephanie-pearl-mcfee","tag-stephen-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}