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Another Egg!

I thrifted this skein of blue/green/silver metallic superfine yarn in the third of my shifting strategies lots. At first I thought it was unlabeled, but after checking the arrival pic I saw that it came with another that had the label of Lion Brand Summer Nights that matched it (which of course I can't put my hands on right now, because my stash room is a great big mess.) I believe it's the colorway Blue Lagoon but don't quote me on that. It's unused, It's similar in weight and color to Hobbii's Universe, or Ice Glitz; just super superfine.

Since I don't want to make the yarn into a wearable (which would take forever, and I don't like metallic thread against my skin) I decided to see how it would work up into a dragon egg dice bag. Okay, yes, I am obsessed with this pattern. It works up so cute I'll probably use all the superfine yarn in my stash making different variations of it.

After dealing with a lot of yarn barf while finding the center pull, I got to work. This yarn's silver metallic thread likes to pop up from the strand, and it's much more limp than Premier's Farmstand, so I had more difficulty making this egg.

I could probably make a couple dozen dice bags from one skein of this yarn, but I wouldn't want to. I had to fight the yarn too much to tame it.

It does work up very pretty, and resulted in a slightly smaller dice bag than the Farmstand. Not sure what I'm going to do with the rest of this skein and the other one, but I'll find something to make them work.

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