So the new Knitty is up (overall: not much that I’m dying to knit rightnow. Where are all the sweater patterns? Is this a result of all the superstar designers getting book deals and becoming tv stars?). Anyway, you need to click here right now and scroll down the third photo and OMG that turtle is naked!

I may just have to knit a naked turtle.

I swatched the Malabrigo (in pattern, which happened in the wee hours of the night yesterday because I forgot to bring the book to the s+b and mistakenly swatched in stockinette) and realized that the Asymmetrical cardigan pattern calls for a bulky-weight cashmere yarn. The Malabrigo is a bit thinner than that, which means that I need more yarn. Gah! But the Malabrigo? Like buttah! Every damn skein had a knot and it will pill like a mofo and I don’t care!