Seaside bracelets

The weather has warmed up even here in the North and beach is the place where most people prefer to be.
I had some aqua blue glass chips, just the right colour for this summer, added some glass beads, moonstones and shells and all this was enough for three bracelets.




The bases of two bracelets are crocheted of cotton and linen yarn, the blue one is woven in peyote stitch.

A butterfly brought the summer

This bright turquoise yarn was calling out for a cheerful summer companion. Beads in water tones, as well as intriguing orange and purple, are knitted along with the yarn and cannot escape from the shrug.




Stringing the beads onto the yarn in the right order according to the "master plan" took a whole hour.




The stitch pattern is very simple, just some reaccurring double holes. The bamboo and cotton yarn feels really soft and light.




The butterfly can change itself according to the light direction and conditions.

Cotton lace shrugs

Knitting with cotton is very different than knitting with wool. The yarn itself does not stretch at all, still the knitted piece can be very stretchy depending on the stitch pattern used.
I tried knitting a bit of cotton lace and made these two shrugs. Different yarn and colour shade, both 100 per cent cotton.




The left one is knitted using the easiest pattern of a simple rectangle, for the one on the right I made a paper pattern by cutting an old sweater. This one is knitted in one piece as well and side seams sewn together.




The close-up of the lace patterns: