What's my favorite new yarn?

I confess - I've been only knitting with Sundara yarn the past few days. The colors! The softness! The squishiness! I can't resist.


My smattered scarf is coming along nicely. I work on it a little bit everyday. It's an easy knit and I love the colors.

Sundara says that to avoid pooling with her sock yarn, knit with two balls at all time, alternating every other row. Well, of course I ignored her advice, because a. I'm lazy and b. I like pooling! It's fun to see what comes out in the end. I started some simple ribbed socks with the acid daffodil yarn.


I originally started out knitting the Yarrow Ribbed Socks from Knitting Vintage Socks, but they were too big for me. So I decided to recreate my best fitting socks, a simple ribbed Koigu pair. I love way the pooling became pseudo-stripes. And I love knitting with this yarn. It's softer than Koigu and the fabric comes out nice and squishy!

To complete my Sundara yarn-centric post, I received my order from pureknits today.

Look how sweet! Yahaira sent a nice note with my order. The sock yarn (Sundara yarn in raspberry torte!) is tied up in a bag with a ribbon. I also ordered a pattern from shibuiknits. The whole package came prettily wrapped in some brown and raspberry colored tissue paper - which coincidentally perfectly matched my yarn. I so appreciate the personal touches that Yahaira added to the order - it makes it that much more special to open! I highly recommend pureknits.com - a great shopping experience.