Started toe-up, with Judy’s magic cast-on and 12 stitches; increasing up to my standard 72 before starting the lace pattern from Cotty.
Hope to do a toe-up gusset heel to make it match.
| Began | September 11, 2009 |
| Finished | October 1, 2009 |
100% | |
| Edited | February 3, 2010 |
| Pattern URL | Cotty by 121281 |
| Made for | me |
Making for Christmas 2009. Instead of 3 solid colors, I’m using 2 solids and one multi, which adds a nice random touch. I need to learn to weave in ends as I go better, it took almost an hour of weaving for the first half, but there’s nice edges to weave them into so it…
made 2 scarves from 1 skein; one is shorter without crochet border.
I took this pattern as inspiration and made it my own with a custom bottom, working circularly instead of flat, and eyelets for a drawstring before the handles. Bottom notes: I used short rows to make the center of the base be wider. Then I used short rows on the sides to create a boat-like…
this may finally be the pattern for this weirdly striped Opal. very deep stash! a little scratchy, hoping for workhorse socks. adjusting to do toe-up version, still need to pick a heel, maybe the fleegle heel like my froot loops? February, 2012: needle broke, replaced with a square kollage with a floppy cable and it…
finished the first diagonal stripe and found it would be hard to do the short rows after the stripe two at a time (2AAT). hibernating while I decide if I want to do them one at a time.
