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: