january sample knit
KP hat.
Began | January 5, 2015 |
Finished | January 13, 2015 |
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Edited | January 13, 2015 |
Notes see note on ittybitty for my recipe. leftovers from a shawl a few years back, my first ever sparkle yarn! if that doesn’t spread joy and a “spark”, I don’t know what would.
2 at a time on 2 circs, made 4 purses all together. Finished 10/16, need braided ties.
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…
Found a new-to-me fiber dyer on Etsy, DnD Fibers, and purchased 8oz of one colorway and 8oz of another to spin up. They are both 85% polwarth and 15% tussah silk. One colorway was a soft pink, a purple leaning pink, a steely gray, and white, and the other was soft pink leaning lavender, the…
4th color of the Wren line. Love the way it pops against brown.
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…