Rambaldi Scarf in rustic green multicolor
Began | November 11, 2010 |
Finished | October 1, 2010 |
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Edited | November 11, 2010 |
Made for | sale |
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.
Started with a square double stranded in seed stitch. Picked up stitches all the way around and started a meshy stitch. Decreased and added a few stockingette rows and an eyelet row in case I wanted a drawstring half way up. More mesh and then handles at the top. Finished knitting 3/15, still need to…
I started out with size 7 needle and k1p1 knit and it was too dense so I switched to size 10 and it was perfect. I taught myself to knit continential with this scarf. When gifting this, I made a flower to tie it up, and that turned out very pretty.
improving to be toe-up. toe is upside down, using kfb as the increases. Added a few extra stitches to the bottom of the foot to account for the slightly lighter yarn. heel will be garter short row (see http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/garter-toes)
adapted slightly for the side patterning and the center of the pattern to be stockinette rather than seed stitch for ease of knitting. and used Fish Lip Kiss Heel instead of pattern heel. Wound the yarn by hand because my swift/ball winder were having problems. The looseness of hand winding really caused problems with pulling…
Pattern coming to purchase here on Ravelry at the very beginning of February! But first, you can buy it as part of a kit with the yarn base I used from Sheepspot starting January 24. This is the long version of the cowl. It is 50” and harmonizes both chevron and lacy feather and fan…