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July 08, 2004
Being Petty
I really enjoy getting my Knitter's Review each week. I especially like her review of new yarns on the market - yarns I would otherwise never find out about.
Today she reviewed "Optimum" from the South West Trading Company. Not a yarn I'll likely ever use, but I wonder if she gave it a fair shake. Check out her sample swatch on her review page.
That stripey effect isn't the yarn's fault - she's got some radically different tension going on her knit rows as compared to her purl rows. And I should know - I see this same problem in my own knitting all the time. I'm pretty confident her swatch would be returned by the TKGA review committee if it was submitted for the Master Knitting program. And that's why I haven't turned my swatches in yet.