Finished my Scotch Broom from Wool and Pine. Ravelry says the name of the pattern is Scotch Broom, but the designer’s website says Scotchbroom Top, but Wool and Pine (most likely) added the pattern entry to Ravelry so I don’t think it’s that critical. I used a light cotton yarn in stead of the wool sock yarn the patterns calls for so it’s a little drape-ier than what I usually wear. I knit five repeats of the scotch broom lace, but thought that might not give me enough space for the underarms so I finished it off with a few rows of single crochet before I seamed the front and back together at the shoulders. That should also give the construction a little more stability to make up for the looser yarn. The top will stretch with wear, which it did a little when I wore it to work today.
The yarn is Trendsetter Yarn Streamers, which was an impulse buy (happens to the best of us), and one of those yarns where if you had read the reviews before you bought it, you might have put it back. It’s a self-striping cotton yarn, but the color changes are made by using some sort of plastic string like a fishing line to bind the joins together. I’m confident it’s going to stay together, but I’ll hand-wash this shirt. The colors fade into each other nicely, with the different colored plies changing one-by-one. For instance, a blue section might be four plies of blue with one ply of yellow, and the next time you knit a blue stripe it’s three plies of blue and two plies of yellow. I’m using the rest of the yarn alongside a cotton dish cloth yarn to make a new washcloth. It was a bit on the expensive side (although very generous yardage) so I want to use up as much as I can.