"This is weird..."

I keep saying that as I knit with some GGH Cascade I got from eBay a while ago. I've had my eye on this pattern for a while, and when I saw the yarn at a great price I was stoked to be the winning bidder:


Red Jacket with Peplum, design number 24 from Rebecca 22
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I actually played with it when I first got the yarn, but I really wasn't in the mood for man-made fibers. At the time, I figured I'd save it for later, when I wasn't so addicted to wool and alpaca. I thought the time had finally come, but as I'm going along I have to admit that I'm not really enjoying this.


The beginning of Red Jacket with Peplum, design number 24 from Rebecca 22
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I don't know if it's just my mood or if this yarn is just plain too weird for me. As with all ribbon-type yarns, it gets twisted (especially when working in K2,P2 rib) and you have to twirl it about every couple rows or it looks funny. Annoying. And the texture of the fabric has this strange feeling, resulting from the ladder fibers. It just screams "Snag me!". Not good. It's really too bad, because the yarn itself (unknitted) looks really cool:


Close up of GGH Cascade yarn - you can't tell from the pic, but it's acutally a triangle ladder construction. Very unusual, to say the least.
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Buckle bag by Rowan, yarn is Gedifra's Fifty Fifty in a light grey color (I know it looks off-white)
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