#(can't imagine doing more than two ply for the forseeable future

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Good: my swatch looks excellent. Extremely pleased with my color choice and design and colorwork in the round with large, evenly sized yarn balls is far more pleasant than my previous experiences have been with flat knitting or a tiny, wildly splitty ball paired with a normal ball.

Bad: my swatch is a full inch+ too small (about 3 cm)

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I have no experience knowing how to size up. That seems a pretty sizable difference? I guess I also tend towards knitting pretty tightly. But how many needles to size up? I suppose I could use the larger set I have and see if that’s too big, and then if it is, go to a craft store and get a goldilocks pair.

#the good news is that while the yarn in the store all seemed way softer and infinitely beyond my spinning capacity #balled up it's really not that different in texture and thickness #from my homespun that is #so the difference is not as stark as i imagined #though the fineness of individual strands certainly is #as well as the number of them #(can't imagine doing more than two ply for the forseeable future #also now i finally get why yarn swifts are a thing #because when working with store-wound skeins ball winding was a cinch #but with the hanks that fancy yarn comes in? gotta tension that stuff out if you want a chance of tangle-less winding #and let's just say using my knees got tiring