Sprinkles the elefante
holding two deep stash yarns together – brown sheep wildfoote and then either Knit Picks Shine Sport in Fuschia or Silver for some really basic stripes and and all over “sprinkle” design!
holding two deep stash yarns together – brown sheep wildfoote and then either Knit Picks Shine Sport in Fuschia or Silver for some really basic stripes and and all over “sprinkle” design!
Began | December 12, 2012 |
Finished | December 18, 2012 |
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Edited | December 21, 2012 |
Pattern URL | Elefante by 3437 |
Made for | Chloe Lynn |
blocking
3 skeins of each, perhaps hats to match. just need blocking!
knit along with Leah.
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)
Finally using one of the sock summit yarns I loved. I think this pattern will make these socks usable in my new Danskos. I got 10st/in and am re-kajiggering things to make that work. must weight remainder yarn to see how much was really left. Pattern was delightful, once I adjusted for my gauge. Yarn…