Fair Isle Friday: Soldotna love

First things first: I love fair isle. A lot.  It is one of my absolute favorite things to knit. I love choosing colors, how they play against each other, the twisting of the yarn and the sense of accomplishment when the pattern begins to emerge.

 So, when Yarnia decided to do a Soldotna (designed by Caitlin Hunter)  knit along, it didn't take too much to convince me. Yes, I had been avoiding it because even a normal sweater is cropped on me. Yes, I wasn't so sure about how the pattern looked. But I had finished the color work on The Throwback by Andrea Mowry, and I was (am) in the middle of stockinette island without the ability to start KareKare yet (need to spin more yarn). But what really sold me is how its a fairly cheap sweater to make. I spent about $68 bucks on the yarn for mine, and it can be used as a nice transitional piece (or if Rhinebeck is too hot for me to wear any of my three longer sleeved sweaters).


So here is a lovely picture of mine in progress. I'm loving the yarn and will do full reviews when they are done.

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