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[ladyknits]

So this weekend I fell in love with the idea of doing IK's Silken Spencer out of stash yarn. I have 400m of red merino, light worsted, which I have been dying to use up. I was going to use some random stash yarn as the accent. Unfortunately this sweater seems to take a lot of yarn. For the smallest size (since I've got a thicker yarn I'm going to

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[socksforphlox]

What's the gauge and yardage? I don't have the magazine yet...

[ladyknits]

The gauge of the yarn in the magazine is 23 st/4 inch and I think it's about 190m per skein. I'm assuming it's dk weight yarn or else knit at a really tight gauge. It's silk. I think I would really get a lot of use out of a little sweater like this. I'm going to wander over to elann again to see if there is anything I might be able to use.

My planned modifications include: not doing fair isle, instead making the border on the body as wide as on the sleeves and not folding it over.

I was so excited about using stash yarn. Bah humbug.

[socksforphlox]

I will check out the ol' spreadsheet. Silk is hard to compare to other yarns sometimes because it needs to be knit pretty tight to preserve form.

[socksforphlox]

Ah, it's made from La Luz. N&P has it, tres pricey. Let me think about this...