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Continuing on last years World of Wool advent box, I decided to blend day 4 (No Comment) using hand carders rather than keep the highly variegated colours. I'm so glad I did. Loving this peachy apricoty result! (link to the reddit post the last image comes from - I forgot to take one myself before I started spinning so thanks u/protoveridical). I do really like the lemony yellow in the initial blend, and wish it popped out more. But there was too much of the red and I just knew I'd lose the yellow in the marling anyway had I kept it as-is.

Matches the weight of day 1 quite well, but is a little on the thin side. Day 2 is still thicker (I skipped 3 because I do not think it's going to work in a sweater project, it's too fragile and will just pill!). I need to keep an eye on my gauge for future spins if I want any kind of consistency 😆

We'll see how day 5 goes!

A while ago I spun up the most luxury fibre in my stash, a qiviut, cashmere, merino, silk, tencel and angora rabbit blend - it is heavenly! here's a link so I can be an enabler if anyone is interested 😆- mods I can remove that if it counts as an ad (although I'm not affiliated with them in any way).
Anyway, I finally finished the project I wanted to make... But I don't love it.

I should clarify, I like the yarn but not the project.
So should I frog the whole damn thing? It has been blocked now, so I have slight concerns about doing that if any of the fluff has started to felt/full in the cloth. But it should still be possible.

If I do frog, does anyone have any pattern suggestions? I honestly have no idea of yardage, but I can cross that bridge when I come to it 😆

The yarn is also not as consistent as I'd like (I included a pic of the fresh skein on the niddy noddy where you can really see this - it was very disappointing to discover I'd not checked my gauge enough, especially for such a nice fibre!). If I frog I'm tempted to un-ply about a third of it and re-spin one of the two singles to improve consistency, but is mostly a very light fingering weight yarn and 100ish grams.

I was aiming for lace but I drifted too far towards thicker plies in the latter half of the spin, which you can see clearly if you compare one end of the stole to the other 🙁 I have undone some of my handspun before and fiddled with ply thickness, and I swore never to do it again. But here we are 😆 I think for this one it would help that I would only be doing that for a maximum third of the skein, not the whole thing. So that option is on the table.

My issues with the knitting side of the project are firstly the 'fit', I should have made fewer pattern repeats as the shawl/scarf/whatever it has ended up being is too wide and not long enough. I can wear it as a shoulder-hugging wrap, but it is not long enough to wrap around completely like a scarf.

Second issue is the colour/pattern clash. I thought my gradient/heathering would be light enough to still carry a lace pattern, but now I'm seeing it methinks I was wrong. I can probably live with this though.

Third issue is I ballsed up the pattern, but that's a me-problem and it looks fine with regard to that. Just different to how it should look. Which no-one else would know but me, but I still know. Again, could probably live with this 😆

So what would you do? Chalk it up to experience and keep it, try to wear it occasionally still or just frog the whole thing, fix the spinning issues then re-knit into something different? If so, what?
It is so so so soft and warm, I'm leaning towards a cowl or something that can snug up around the neck on very cold days. And of course I finish it and debate this on the hottest day of the year so far...

tl;dr - help! should I put extra hours in, frog, re-spin some of this or just sit with the less-than-perfect project I've managed to achieve?

I've finally got around to spinning the advent from last year from world of wool, and upon opening day 2 back in December (and again now), I loved the way the gingerbread looked! I can see the inspiration, and love how light and fluffy and fun it is!
But... I'm really disliking the final spin :(
Not sure why, it doesn't look all that different. Oh well. We'll see how it looks as part of the set when I'm done. (blend is merino/sari silk)

I think it's mostly because there's too much colour sprinkled in for me. If I had this blend again I'd definitely spin it thicker and fluffier, more like a woollen/semi-woollen dk weight (rather than the worsted fingering weight I've done here) to puff it out and spread the colour a bit more. But I honestly think I'd spend a while pulling some of the sari silk out, to let the ginger merino shine more...

Anyone else run into spinner's regret lately? ;)