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More vacation knitting.

Materials: 1 skein Artful Yarns Fable (85% pima cotton, 15% silk) in Little Red Riding Hood (#93) from Lakeside Fibers; circular Denise needles sizes #7 and #5. One-skein wonder pattern purchaseable online.

Time: 2 days.

Cost: $10.95

p>While buying the yarn for One-Skein Wonder #1, I was struck by a pretty skein of Artful Yarns Fable. It's the kind of yarn that I could never see myself using for a larger project, but it seemed perfect for something like the OSW: affordable in small quantities, and if it sucked, I'd only be spending a couple of days on it.

This yarn looks its best at a gauge smaller than that recommended on the label, so after a bunch of furious calculations I ended up making a larger size. Because it's such a simply-designed piece, the adjustments worked.

The only thing different about this project from the first one-skein wonder was that I had to keep a not-too-attentive eye on the yarn's tendency to split. You can see in the above photo how it's constructed from four plies of different colors, and while they combine into a fairly harmonious whole they also tend to separate. I know, it's endemic to working with cotton -- but still, I've been so pleased with these two pieces that I'd consider larger cotton projects in my future.

I googled to get a pic of Fable knitted up as I purchased enough for a cardigan and wasn't sure if I was keeping it--your shrug came out GREAT!!! the fabric is really beautiful, and thanks for the tip about smaller needles & tendency to split--I'll watch for that.