Hi d2 > I can't figure out how that fiber, which is so soft and wonderful in locks, > manages to harden up and poke the skin, when it's knit.
It's the ends of the fibres that poke the skin and cause the itchies. When you feel a lock you just feel along the length of it, but when it's knit, some of the ends poke out of the yarn. The stiffer those ends (which usually, but not always, has to do with the coarseness of the fibre) the more they prickle. Mary in New Zealand, where we're having the hottest summer for many years www.nzspinningwheels.info
