The skirt from last time bit the dust. I made it to the scalloped part, telling myself that the fabric wasn’t was dense and heavy as I thought it was, until I tried it on and had to be honest. The pattern has a drawstring waist, but doubling up the yarn to make gauge made for such a heavy finished product that it would have taken suspenders and/or duct tape to keep that thing on me, and I’m not really into that. So, for my Maine vacation knit, I decided to make a striped shirt with one ball of all three colors, instead. Not really using a pattern, just took the gauge I got with sport weight yarn and size 2 (I think) needles, measured around, and got to work. If I have enough yarn when I get done, and I think I will, each ball of Bamboo Pop has about 200 yards, I’ll give it sleeves.
I had this grand idea of smooth, jog-less stripes that blended seamlessly into each color, and genuinely made an effort by slipping the last stitch of the last row of each color, but quickly decided that the striped were thin enough that it wouldn’t make much of a difference in the final product. I’m really much less particular about knits for myself than I am about things I make for other people.