Pair of 4ply fingerless mittens for PIF recipient. Knitted in a lambswool and silk blend in a fabulous turquoise shade incorporating tweedy flecks of green and violet. I started these in February, by knitting the leaf edging, then put the project away to enable concentration on other more pressing projects. I picked them up again …
Tag archives: Finished Objects
FO:Alpine Butternut
Super-luxurious and chunky Butternut Scarf, made in Rowan Cocoon. Enabled by a very generous RAK.
Details and photo gallery.
FO: Cascading Leaves Shawl
Small triangular shawl from handspun yarn.
I made this from the BFL tops that I was given when I was learning to spin. I made a 2ply of roughly 18 WPI with it.
Another project that took a long time to come to fruition. I had a couple of false starts with this but it went very quickly once I made my mind up to settle to it.
FO: Pink Swallowtail Shawl
A second Swallowtail Shawl, much finer than the first – and pretty in pink…
Details and gallery.
FO: Man Sweater
DK man’s sweater in New Lanark Donegal Silk Tweed.
This project took a long time to come to fruition, though the actual knitting was very fast. Enjoyable knit, I would make it again. Mr L loves it. I gave him the sweater to try on for size as I finished seaming it. It took a long time to get it back from him for washing.
PS4 North FO: Joy without Joy
These socks were a fun and speedy knit. Each sock took just two days to knit.
Laeticia – a sock pattern from the Twist Collective, by Stephanie van der Linden. I knitted these for myself from Toddy, my favourite sock yarn from The Yarn Yard.
A Project Spectrum project.