adapted to add a seed stitch button panel to the Barley pattern. bought the buttons at OFFF with the hope to make this hat and then found the yarn on destash 🙂
| Began | December 23, 2016 |
| Finished | December 8, 2016 |
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| Edited | December 23, 2016 |
| Pattern URL | Barley by 426231 |
| Size made | L |
Started February 11th so I’d have it going to bring to knit-in that night. Worked on it alternating with my Stripey socks, until the needle broke. Then it was “all-wrap, all the time”. Finished on a Saturday afternoon 10 days after starting. It was a wonderful lace pattern, especially after I charted it out so…
Use Comfy Sport for the crochet motifs, and weigh skeins. 6/23: knit 2 cashew panels, one large honey dew, and part way thru one large ivory. 6/25: finished all knitted panels, started on crochet test samples out of Comfy Sport. 6/27: knit 4 of the 8 crochet squares. Final: Used large knitted modern rectangles intermixed…
I used this pattern as a starting place, but did my own stitch counts, stitch patterns, and methods. I wanted the bottom to be solid but the top to stretch, so the first square (CO 18 st until it was square) was seed stitch, doubled with a color and white. The remainder of the rectangle…
Taking one of my cherished skeins of yarn and making a nice lightweight tee to wear over summer clothes.
Rather than using the cable pattern in the SNB book, I really liked lixolux’s picture and so I tried making a 6 stitch plait (from Knitting on the Edge). That worked out great, I just had to adjust where the cable started by moving a few stitches between the needles, and a little more adjusting…
Cast on in train to Madrona! Top border: garter, 5” tall. Wedge: used for social knitting and did much further than necessary. slightly asymmetrical! Main section: began striping with the lavender yarn – 4 rows of lav, then 2 rows of main Bottom border: garter, 2 1/4” tall. striped with the lav yarn changing colors…
