Yotta Love

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Ça n'arrive pas trop souvent qu'une laine me surprend autant que Yotta l'a fait aujourd'hui. Yotta est la nouvelle laine de Julie Asselin. Je dois avouer que j'adore toutes ces couleurs mais je préfère souvent les multi-colores. Aujoud'hui, j'ai essayé cette laine. Je tripe vraiment sur la grosse laine et malgré tous mes projets en cours, je ne pouvais pas la resister.  J'ai monter mes mailles pour le vite cowl. Finalement, le patron est vite mais quand on a de la belle laine on arrête souvent pour l'admirer.  Dans l'écheveau, je ne pouvais pas me rendre compte de toute les belles nuances. En le tricotant.... c'était vraiment autre chose. Quasiment à chaque maille ou à chaque rang je remarquer comment c'était beau. Emily et Kam riaient de moi. On parlait et au milieu d'une phrase, je passer un commentaire sur la laine et revenait à la conversation aussi vite.
 Donc, je vous encourage à la tricoter, mais attention, cette laine va vous seduire.

Patron: Vite Cowl + un écheveau de Yotta

Not often do I get mesmerized by yarn. Today, Yotta completely seduced me. She make look ordinary in a skein, but she comes alive on the needles. I am enamored with Julie Asselin's sense of colour but I normally tend to prefer the multi colored yarn. Today I worked on a greenish skein. The nuances are quite incredible. With each stitch and each row, the yarn blossoms with nuances. I have to admit that I chose this pattern because it is called Vite which in French means fast, but there was no way I could knit it quickly. I kept pausing to look at the beautiful colour. It would have been one thing to silently admire it. But, no, I had to pause my conversation, make a comment about the yarn and go back mid sentence to carry on my conversation. It was not until Emily made fun of me for doing that did I realize the power of seduction of Yotta. So, I encourage you to knit Yotta...this yarn just may seduce you too!

Great Minds think alike

I remember a few weeks ago having an aha moment when I was talking to Julie Asselin and fondling the baby llama from Illimani yarns at the same time. WOW wouldn't it be awesome if you could hand dye the baby llama. We looked at each other with such glee and excitement..... Fast forward a few weeks and I get a call from Sylvie at Lettuce Knit in Toronto... She wanted hand dyed Illimani yarns in Julie Asselin colours. And, thus, a knitting partnership was born. The next thing you know, Ilimani yarns sent yarn to Julie and here is the first look at it. More will be coming soon

Being a bit of a yarn brat, I insisted I should get first dibs and try out the first versions. Yesterday, the hand dyed silky baby llama arrived. Sorry, I am feeling very possessive... they are all mine ;-) I had been searching for days, for what seemed like weeks for a pattern that would show off the great colour work, great yarn, still look good on me and require minimal finishing. Yesterday, Arleen spoke to me.  Worked in the round from the top down with no sewing and simple raglan increases... she won the contest.

Big thanks go to Kam of Everyday Peacocks for combing through her 6,000+ favorites in ravelry to help me find the perfect project.... there are a few I have discovered and can't wait to knit.

Arleen by Donna Knits

So, I dutifully swatched. Rarely do I do this, mostly out of laziness and also lacking time. My main concern was how the colours would look. Would I get stripes? Pooling?? So I did a rather wide swatch to check it all out.

 All was going great. It seemed like my bamboo addi clicks were just weaving their magic with the silk baby llama heavenliness. The, something did not look quite right.... I was only increasing for the raglan shaping on one side of the markers. Grant it I did not have my fancy everyday peacock stitch markers. I was using  my plain old clover green markers. And while they work fine on most projects. The addis and the silky baby llama were having none of that. So, I ripped back several rows and waiting until I could get to Mont Tricot and get my hands on my special Everyday Peacocks markers.

Well, the next thing you know, the rows were flying by with increases of either side of the marker. It is as if the marker just gently whispers and reminds me kbf before the marker and kfb after the marker. If you don't believe this happened... you should try the magical markers out for yourself

Well, not a great picture, but here is a picture of my progress thus far....

In case there is any doubt. This is a heavenly project. I will be updating you on the progress.
 Stay tuned....