Two of the white cones of machine knitting yarn were used to do some knitting and stash reducing. As the threads were rather thin I decided to get my knitting machine out of the moth balls. So I did some (read: a lot of) cleaning and oiling, set the machine up and discovered I had forgotten a thing or two, or more to be honest. And I found a set of garters bars I had never used. So I watched a number of Craftsy courses last weekend when it happened they could all be watched free. It seemed so simple but with two threads combined it turned out I was a bit clumsy. So I used the machine for all parts up to the armholes, then used a large circular needle and did the top. I liked the seamless result, so that could be my excuse.

Doing it all by hand would have been much faster, even on 2.5 mm needles.
As you can see there's a lot of yarn left, those cones are bigger than they seem in the picture. I have 995 gr left to be precise, and the garment weighs 97 gr. So I could do another 10 in this size. Boy, would that be boring! Anyway, I can practice and perfect my machine knitting. I might even attach the ribber and practice that again.

I crocheted a small square (corner to corner) and tried out mixing in embroidery thread for some colour. You can just about see it in the right hand corner. This was the usual 40wt and the result is very subtle. I have a 1000m come of 30wt green and I think I might give that a try as well.

And as I have 3 other cones of white I consider dying my swatch to see if that works.