Sunday 6 February 2011
Needles kept warm
The needles and hooks got themselves a warm chunky cozy, this way they are always ready to work:
Sunday 30 January 2011
Old-fashioned white roses
Knitted, finished, washed, blocked and blogged: a shawl full of white roses, something to dream about in wintertime.
The edge pattern is from a stitch library, I designed the centre pattern and that took a lot of drawing and erasing. And imagine that heap of swatches! Fortunately they are woollen, so I have some ideas on the back of my mind how these could be used for a felting project.
The mission was to create a rose looking like those old filet crochet motives, of course it is not that simple with knitting stitches.
The yarn is Linate Smyrna Platinum with sheep and alpaca wool, which holds very well and I definitely like it more than lace weight merino.
The edge pattern is from a stitch library, I designed the centre pattern and that took a lot of drawing and erasing. And imagine that heap of swatches! Fortunately they are woollen, so I have some ideas on the back of my mind how these could be used for a felting project.
The mission was to create a rose looking like those old filet crochet motives, of course it is not that simple with knitting stitches.
The yarn is Linate Smyrna Platinum with sheep and alpaca wool, which holds very well and I definitely like it more than lace weight merino.
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