slip slant hat
proof of concept!
| Began | January 27, 2015 |
| Finished | January 29, 2015 |
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| Edited | January 30, 2015 |
| Made for | prototype |
This was my first attempt at lace knitting and dropping stitches. I was worried about my cast on not being loose enough, so I found and used Eunny’s "lace cast on". I also used a different bind off, but I don’t recall which one right now. The pattern was very simple – knit knit knit…
Started for zk2020 at home. Knitting in laceweight and will make it larger than the pattern written.
I did a mix of colors for this rather than a solid – For cast on and bind off, I held 3 strands of red. For most of the potholder, 3 strands of white. Towards the middle, it’s 2 white, 1 red. And the very middle stripe is 2 red, 1 white. This was mainly…
finished before thanksgiving, need real pictures! 11/8: separated off for the left and right fronts, and decided to do them two-at-a-time. I had to do a little more writing out which rows had arm or neck decreases so I was sure to be in the correct place (especially with t-a-a-t) but it’s going smoothly now….
PLANNING: Use TdF2021 handspun (DnD Fibers) for main color. Sun Valley in Wine, Onyx, and Intermission are coming for the colorwork. Plan to continue colorwork at the underbust (possibly with a band of corrugated ribbing first). Bought the pattern from Jessica McDonald’s site. September 26: wound yarn and swatched in the round September 28: cast…
lovely lavender.