Caritas
My prototype, in totally ME colors 🙂
Finished
doll-sized wren
Using the basic structure of my Wren Shawl, I made a little one as a gift for a friend who loves dolls. Leftover yarn from my very first “real” socks.
Wren Sample
weight remaining yarn: 42g left (79% of 2 skeins used), about 518 yards used. I think it ate up a little more yarn because of being Sport weight instead of fingering, but it made an awesome shawl. This yarn worked up so smoothly and knit like butter! The other great thing about this shawl is…
gothy f-and-f
see favs for f+f on top of foot. found out (after completing the heel) i had dropped a stitch in the foot! I had somewhere increased to compensate but the little stitch was hanging out waiting for me. I put a stitch marker through it and it was good for the rest of the knitting…
leah’s doubleknit purse
Learning to double-knit. Used two strands of different multi-colors. Cast on with two strands held together and then started double-knitting. Bound off with two strands on the wrong side to have the same effect on the border. Improved decreases by rearranging stitches as in cable-needle-free cables. Added eyelet row similarly – the ribbon is threaded…
Oregon Trail socks
for travel knitting, may 2011
pinkblack prototype
swatched on several diff sized needles, and the larger swatch was so much more helpful to see this new technique. short rows are rockin’.
Urban Decay
Prototype for a shawl with dropped stitches. Inspired by the colorway name “Decay”, the pattern shows an urban skyline that may be decaying from the earth after an apocalyptic event. Deep and full of colors, the yarn fit the whole idea perfect.
Romanesca socks
swatched personal footprint concept on a single toe and didn’t like yarn. switched to yarn I liked, 2-at-a-time and one of the patterns further in the book that caught my eye as easy but not too hard to follow while setting up my footprint. yeah, yeah, I coulda done a plain version first, but you…
dripdrop prototype
After a swatch went a totally different way that I expected, I used it as a guide for this pattern. Initially swatched with Dream in Color classy from AmyToadyJoe. Then tried Cat’s Eye previously ripped out from some socks. Now SweetGeorgia… much better. Charted as I went, but tweaked heavily as i made it through…