I've been wrestling with this yarn: Ice Yarns Violino, in blue/green/red/orange.

This yarn is not easy to needle-knit with. The 'ribbon' of this ribbon yarn is a flattened i-cord made out of thread. The stitch-holes in the i-cord are big enough to catch the point of any knitting needle. With the current project I'm knitting I've often had to re-do a stitch over and over before I got a stitch where the threads didn't catch on the needle.

This yarn is fine for machine-knitting and crochet, because there are no pointy tools involved. Unfortunately, the colour sections are so short that the longest sequence of one colour with 4mm needles is four knit stitches, but most of the time the colour-sequences are two stitches wide. This means that doing crochet with this yarn looks like someone vomited confetti. Machine-knitting gives a similar result, because the gauge of my knitting machine is more like 8mm than 4mm.

So I felt I HAD to needle-knit this, in order to do the colours justice. I'm making an octopus soft toy; and I've come too far to back out now. The body is done, and I've just started the first leg.

But it is DRIVING ME BONKERS!

One thing that is keeping me going is the thought that this project may use up all the yarn and I'll never have to deal with it again.

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