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:
Saturday 19 June 2010
Monday 24 May 2010
Delft blue bracelet
Blue and white porcelain inspired me to try these colours in bead embroidery and a bracelet seemed like the right amount of work to do.
Materials all gathered: glass seed beads, a ribbon for the bracelet base, thread and an embroidery needle.
Made the frame first, starting with the darkest blue beads. Not sure if I like it this way...
Finished the first flower! The frame looks all right now, I think. The overall image reminds me more of those Mediterranean blue and white tile mosaics than porcelain, actually.
When finished embroidering, double folded the ribbon and sewed by hand all around the edges. The hardest part is making a clasp. Out of several options coming to my mind, I decided to sew some double rings to the back side where I could attach jump rings, pieces of extension chain and a toggle clasp.
Materials all gathered: glass seed beads, a ribbon for the bracelet base, thread and an embroidery needle.
Made the frame first, starting with the darkest blue beads. Not sure if I like it this way...
Finished the first flower! The frame looks all right now, I think. The overall image reminds me more of those Mediterranean blue and white tile mosaics than porcelain, actually.
When finished embroidering, double folded the ribbon and sewed by hand all around the edges. The hardest part is making a clasp. Out of several options coming to my mind, I decided to sew some double rings to the back side where I could attach jump rings, pieces of extension chain and a toggle clasp.
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