stv challenge 3
just a wee swatch 6 1/4” x 1 1/4”.
| Began | September 5, 2012 |
| Finished | September 5, 2012 |
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| Edited | September 5, 2012 |
| Made for | Sock The Vote |
Received this lovely self-striping yarn from my friend Karen. The summer of 2021 is a mess of doctors appointments to try and figure out what’s going on with my health and so I cast on a yarn-y companion project. Cast 60 stitches on provisionally with a crochet hook around my knitting needle. Using a 14″…
Constructed this handspun especially for this project, turned 6oz of multicolored roving into a gradient by separating up the colors and then spinning them roughly in order with adding pops of the other colors into the others. Not as crisp as some handspun contrast might be, but I really like the effect. Started the handspun…
used shorter needle tips CO132 weight of yarn balls to start: 14g imagination, 30g 45degrees for Miles.
gift yarn from AnitaT! free form nesting baskets. 34yds/25g left.
Making another as one final check of the numbers in the pattern before releasing it! The colors changes were really nice and subtle and I took pics with my wedding dress to show off how nice it looks against the silky satiny white.
Started out doing bottom up with plans to kitchener, but then my cast on wasn’t as pretty as I liked, so I flipped it on end and seamed up the cast on edge for the top. did several tack stitches to define the ears. It’s a little loose after wearing all day, but not bad….