Learned several lessons with this one...

[sharpchick_2011]

I posted my questions about how the yarn was twisted so tightly from the winding...

Here is a photo of the last row before I bound off.



You can see how tightly wound it was in those first five stitches, as opposed to the width of the yarn as it was on the hank before winding. That continued over and over throughout the knitting of the scarf.

When I asked at the yarn store how many balls I'd need for the finished scarf, she said one.

So I bought one.

And got a 37.5 inch scarf.



Don't know any toddlers who will be dancing over this color combo, so I think I now have a very expensive table runner. Or a huge hot pad.

But I learned some lessons here...

130 yards of Camp Stove is enough to make half a scarf.

Any future purchases of this yarn will be wound by hand.

Comments

[momijizukamori]

re: continental versus English - it depends on how the yarn was twisted when it was manufactured. Someone did an interesting experiment with this on Ravelry, which I will have to go find the post for - but iirc, European yarn brands mostly had twist in the direction that worked with continental, and NA yarn brands had it that worked with English.

[momijizukamori]

Here's the post - I thought it had included brand info commentary, but apparrently I was mis-remembering. The poster does mention they got the idea from trying to knit with a spun-single they'd bought in Poland and having problems with untwisting, though.

[ginny_t]

A single is a different thing, even in North America. It's twisted the opposite way of a plied yarn because you twist in the opposite direction of spinning when you ply yarns together.

I knit quite a few things out of singles in a row this past autumn, and I noticed the difference.