Question for Knitters

[neadods]

Has anyone worked with Mission Falls cotton? It's on sale at yarn.com at the moment for a price that makes an afghan a possibility, but I don't want to buy tons and find out that it's a pup to work with, a la the Rowan Tweed. (By the way, I haven't forgotten that some of y'all have expressed an interest. I'm going to be up at the Book Thing next weekend and then seeing what's left and who wants it.)

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[anon-aspasia.livejournal.com]

The 1824 Cotton? Oddly, I'm working on an afghan with it right now! (I'm making my own take on the Moderne Log Cabin from Mason-Dixon Knitting, which is perfect brainless end-of-semester/beginning-of-break work.)

I haven't washed it yet, but it's working up pretty well, imho. I like the hand on it, and it's a little less tiring than some cottons to work with. (It still is cotton, though, so it does lack the stretch of wool and is a little more work to knit.) In general, though? As long as you're not trying to use too small a needle, I would think that you'll be fine. (The irregularity combined with the lack of stretch would make it a right bastard at an overly small gauge, but you probably wouldn't want such a thing for an afghan, unless you wanted said afghan to be bulletproof.)

Also, if you go into the Ravelry yarn section and search for the yarn, you'll see a lot of examples of different colors and project types; it might help you in making your decisions, with no communication required. Here's the yarn's page: http://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/mission-falls-1824-cotton

[neadods.livejournal.com]

What I want is to either make another mitered crosses or a log cabin; one requires k2t and both require pick up and knit - as long as neither of them requires a winch and other heavy machinery it'll be okay. (Although if it's springy enough for a center double decrease I'll be delighted. But it doesn't look like a yarn that would tolerate that well.)

Either way, #7 (US) needles, so not too small.

[anon-aspasia.livejournal.com]

Tension varies, of course, but I wouldn't use 7s with this. 8 would be the minimum I'd try, personally. A center double decrease *might* be possible, but I wouldn't count on it; K2t might be a bit twitchy if you're knitting too tightly, but fine otherwise. And I know that picking up stitches is definitely no problem, as I've been doing it repeatedly. (Yay log cabins!)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of a log cabin after the mitered cross. It's so lovely to have something on needles... although I'd really like to do a scrap yarn triangles one too. (Basically, I want to knit all the quilts that I once wanted to sew.)