Amanda Knits

I made a swatch for the baby jacket. I have had cotton bleed before, but this was amazing.

After a few minutes in the water...

Then I lifted it up and squeezed it...and this is one of the lighter pictures.

I soaked it again (it was soaked in hot and cold water for nearly two hours) and these bubbles showed up on the surface of the yarn. I don't think I've seen yarn do this.

I knew this cotton would shrink. The problem is that my washer combo drier doesn't really dry clothes so much as bounces them back and forth in wet air. So I washed the swatch in the hottest water possible and dried it for as long as possible. It still came out sopping wet (sigh!) but it had indeed shrunk about 15%.

Now I've changed my chart to make up for that difference. Let's see how this turns out...

I also realized post-swatching that I didn't have enough yarn. So I stopped by the yarn store again and managed to get more red and navy yarn. This was exciting because I don't know my Korean colors yet and there was a man working there rather than the woman I worked with before. I am pretty sure that dye lots...well, yeah, no such thing. So near the end of one ball I'm alternating every two rows to prevent a very obvious line.