Menokreatikkul; Saturday Stitches

Getting another WIP to the FO stage. The best part of eight months ago, I shared with you this post... After posting that rather detailed stitchery, I laid it down and didn't pick it up again until a couple of weeks back. Sigh...

If I had thought to check back to that very same post, I could have completed the thing in that YAMmy stitch, and that's all you would see. However, at the time of restarting, I kinda-sorta forgot I had written about the stitch I'd made up and no amount of studying it could reveal to me what I had done. So I decided it would become a 'sampler' and there would be four panels of the same size using three other Tunisian stitches.

The yarn is from a big batch that I got from Temu and came in packs of four balls (I think I still have eight or nine balls left), but with absolutely no details beyond the fact that it is 60%/40% Mohair/Merino. Two and a half balls were used for this item.

Were it not for the 'slubbing' and halo effect of the loosely spun mohair, it would be a 2-weight yarn, but I worked this as if it were a 3-weight, upping the hook size (5mm) to increase drape.

The panels, then, were first the YAMmy stitch...

I made the next panel with the Long Stitch - one that I like doing and how it looks for most yarns, though I don't think I would use that again for this style of yarn as it is not that well differentiated...

The third panel was made in Net Stitch - a simple yarn over, skip a stitch on the forward pass. Loved the results of this and would work a whole shawl/cowl in this with this type of yarn another time.

The last panel, I went for a straightforward Simple Stitch, just to see what sort of material would result. I really like the fabric feel that came out of working this stitch with this yarn, and could see it making a cardigan or jumper.

I have to say that working this silky, slinky yarn on the metal hook was a little tiring, as one had to be ever alert to the possibility of dropping stitches. I would be tempted to run this with one of my bamboo Tunisian hooks to see if that was less precarious! 

There is definitely a luxury feel to the yarn, and I found myself 'cuddling' the work from time to time... it put me very much in mind of my angel Jasper Cat's furs! Soft, lush, warm... just perfect for a snuggly muffly!!!