Question for Knitters
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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Going up a needle size often helps with the hurts-my-hands thing I get with cotton, so if you like the fabric you're getting with a larger needle, it may help.
Your best bet might be be to see if you can find a ball at one of your local yarn shops and swatch with it. You probably won't get the same dyelot as a Webs order, but for a mitred afghan, dyelot's not a huge deal.
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I've got a skein of Knitpicks Crayon running around somewhere; I wonder if that would have a similar hand to it.