I fell for this one – hook, line and sinker, just as soon as I ever laid eyes on it. It even seduced me to the point that I sent away for specially selected yarn, rather than dipping into the stash and making do. Amalia is a flamboyent piece and definitely needed a bold splash of colour.
Details and gallery.
Link is a lightweight lace scarf, knitted in a 2/28NM Cashmere/Silk/Merino blend from Colourmart. It is a quick knit and quite simple, but does have a couple of wrong side pattern instructions. The pattern is charted only.
Details and gallery.
It’s WIP Wednesday, folks – and there is plenty of WIP-age in these here parts. The Colourmart Lovers competition closed yesterday at 5pm1, leaving me with three projects uncompleted; one of these I regard as formally in hibernation now, the remaining two are WIPs for completion in the shorter term. The Jubilee – Snowbird Cardigan [...]
Quite some time ago, I made an over-sized Morning Surf scarf from multiple shades of a Colourmart cashmere scrap set of laceweight in blues and greens – A Tumult of Waves.
It was rapidly rehomed and I always promised myself a replacement. Down Among the Dunes takes its inspiration from the shore, rather than from the sea, and is made from the Cashmere/Silk/Merino blend yarn. Like its earlier counterpart, the yarn is held doubled and the shades changed one at a time.
Details and gallery.
I fell in love with Annis as soon as it was published as a Knitty surprise. I lost no time in casting it on, using some of the Colourmart 2/28NM scrap sets that I had in my stash.
Details and gallery.
WIP Wednesday! WIPpage this week has been entirely confined to this little piece of froth… It is the rectangular stole version of Kieran Foley’s Teardrop shawl. I am making it in a 2ply alpaca blend yarn – Machair, from The Yarn Yard. There is some very subtle beading going on there, with 11/0 beads in [...]
FOs are falling off my needles faster than leaves drop from the trees in Autumn, or so it seems. The only trouble is that I do not have the time to document them properly right now.
This week’s cursory FO post is Frozen Leaves.
Details and gallery.
This is my first test knit for Designs by Romi. The shawl pattern is named Merope and is one of a forthcoming set of seven small shawls, all named after the Pleiades.
Merope is available now as a single purchase or as part of the yet-to-be-completed e-book series
WIP Wednesday again. Already? Not possible!
Real life continues to intervene but I am slowly finding niches of time in which to play.
Progress report on Dido, ferry blankie, and some weaving…
Day 1 of Knit/Crochet Blog Week. This post answers the prompt:
How and when did you begin knitting? was it a skill passed down through generations of your family, or something you learned from Knitting For Dummies? What or who made you pick up the needles/hook for the first time? Was it the celebrity knitting ‘trend’ or your great aunt Hilda?
…. at length!
