SWS update

alright, so i know it's been like a month since my last post but i've been busy. so sue me. i started working on a cowl-neck shrug with the SWS yarn i purchased for hella cheap. i've got one sleeve almost finished but i have a bit of an issue. take a gander:



here's my dilemma: i did a swatch (that's a first for me!) and got my gauge spot-on for this project. however, when i discovered while knitting this that these sleeves are so damned..... bulky. the cuff actually starts at my wrist, maybe about two inches down from where it's currently resting which makes it look even bulkier. i mean, i may have thick arms but that's almost too much. the sleeves don't look that bulky in the picture of the pattern, so what the hell is my problem.

also, i'm not entirely sure that the colorway of this yarn is something that i'm necessarily comfortable wearing. so basically right now i have no idea why i even started this. welcome to the perpetual catch-22 of pretty much every knitting project i take on. i'll see a pattern and be like, "awesome! this will be fun to make!" then i'll get halfway finished and positively hate it.

here's another issue i have with this project. though it's less the projects' fault and more the yarns':



this is the wrong side of the sleeve. do you see all those ties? there's five of them. only one of them (second from right) is the start a new skein of yarn. i've found that while knitting the sws would just split in my hands. i don't knit particularly tight so i'm really not too sure of the reasons for this.

i'm working on a scarf with another skein of this just to see if this yarn is all-around shite. more to come on that.