I’ve been swatching like crazy, and I finally decided on a new project. It’s Britannia, a free pattern from Berroco, in RYC luxury cotton.
The pattern tells you to twist your ribbed stitches (ie, Knit and purl into the back look). I completed an inch and a half that way before I decided it would drive me mad (this sweater has a lot of ribbing) so I ripped out and I’m doing regular ribbing. Twisting the ribbing made it less stretchy, and made the knit stitches stand out on the RS but… I can live without it. When stretched (as it will be) the ribbing appears almost identical anyway. Could the twisted stitches be because the original yarn called for was bonsai, a bamboo ribbon yarn? Anyway, it seems fine this way, and I’m much more happy.
I really like the Luxury cotton, which is very soft and ever so slightly stretchy. It does split like mad, but I’m learning to deal with it.
I’m doing some destashing, if you’re interested in anything feel free to drop me a line! I’m mostly getting rid of anything even faintly tweedy, as I’ve found that it is far too hard on my hands. Lovely yarns though!
Green apples - Stitchywitch Creates 
Hello, this comment is a little out of place… Sorry about that. I was looking at your destash sale and I’m interested in buying your Skye Tweed in Spruce BUT I cannot access your email address from the site (it’s not you, it’s me. The email program on my computer is a little funny). Hopefully this comment goes to your email anyways. Thanks a lot!
Alli
ps. Lorelei looks great!
I need to do some destashing too! I have so much yarn that I don’t know what to do with. One lady suggested making a blanket out of it by buying a bright skein of redheart, throwing my stash in a bag, grabbing whatever, and then knitting double stranded with the redheart. Her blanket came out pretty cute.