The yarn is Darn Good Yarn's Sport Weight Silk in colorway Popsicle. I received 1 skein of it as a selection of the month in their subscription yarn club. Later I received a second skein as a promotion they were running where you could add a surprise to your subscription box for just $5. Since I now had two, I picked up a third skein later, so I'd have enough to make something light and lacy. It is such a dream to work with. It glides across your skin, and whatever the detergent they use on the yarn smells pleasant, but not overwhelming. I found myself sometimes sniffing my project. Is that weird? Wait, never mind. It's totally weird, but I don't care.
As for the pattern, I initially had a bit of trouble with it. The directions per row are a dense block of text, and even with the text size turned up on my kindle, it was easy to get lost within the paragraph. I did the first 8 rows easily enough, but by row 10 I could tell something was off. I frogged and restitched rows 8-12 a few times, not quite figuring out what was wrong, and getting a bit frustrated. Finally I decided to walk away for a little while. I took a nice shower, did a few errands, and had some lunch. Lo and behold, when I got back to my parents house, there had been an update on the pattern, and it now had a diagram! The diagram made all the difference, and I discovered that I had simply missed an asterisk in row 10, leading to 2 too many stitches. It also made me realize how far I've come with reading crochet diagrams over text directions!
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