I swatched four yarns for this project (click to see larger): 1 – A Colourmart 100% silk in 3/50NM weight ( over 1,800 yards per 100g), colour “Tinfoil” A very fine yarn and, although agreeable to blocking, it is not surprising that it came up short: 5½” wide by about 3½” high. I love the …
Tag archives: Lace
Swatches
Lousy photograph on a gloomy horrible day – these swatches are still wet so the colours do not show yet Clockwise from top right: Swatch #4, the Glisten (100% silk) – the heaviest yarn sample and the most readily blocked to size (6″ wide, 4″ high) Swatch #3, Hipknits laceweight silk – a totally different …
Glisten, do you wanna know a secret?
I have been swatching for the Evenstar mstery shawl and concluding that although I need to knit from stash, there’s nothing there that is really substantial enough to hold 3,000 beads. Even though I knew I couldn’t buy any yarn, I went Googling for laceweight silk. I found an indie dyer that I hadn’t come …
Evenstar Mystery Shawl
Time to start a new post series for the Evenstar Mystery Shawl KAL! Evenstar is the opener to a new series of designs, inspired by The Lord of The Rings trilogy, by Susan Pandorf of Sunflower Designs. It is a circular shawl, of around 6 feet in diameter (I think) and has a beaded edging …
Whatever was I thinking?
2010 – the year of the sweater. Or not. The promise that I made to myself was to stop knitting so many accessories and to produce some proper knitting this year. Sweaters. Things to keep me warm. I have yarn for several lined up and I desperately want to spin enough to make myself a …
Bitterroot beads
The beads arrived today for my Bitterroot shawl. I couldn’t get a very good photograph, but this may give the general idea: The problem that I have now is that I cast on the second of my Very Terhi mittens last night and I kind of want to see those finished – but the notion …