magrathea x2
for mom. with beads like mine. muted burgundy-black colors. maybe bumblebirch?
for mom. with beads like mine. muted burgundy-black colors. maybe bumblebirch?
Began | June 25, 2014 |
Finished | July 24, 2014 |
100% | |
Edited | August 5, 2014 |
Pattern URL | Magrathea by 233559 |
Made for | mom |
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…
used the remainder of the magrathea beads and some of the yarn. knit as long as I could with the beads and then changed to a plain I-cord. picked up stitches on cast on edge and did a short I-cord there for easier tying as well, as I didn’t have a clasp. will wear on…
3 skeins of each, perhaps hats to match. just need blocking!
top down sleeveless – garter at the sleeve edges. contrast color underbust band applied edging with stitches picked back up. lace from underbust down, with the contrast color at either side in intarsia. faking intarsia in the round by wrap and turn alternating with ssk for stability at the turning point. hoping to do some…
Constructed this handspun especially for this project, turned 6oz of multicolored roving into a gradient by separating up the colors and then spinning them roughly in order with adding pops of the other colors into the others. Not as crisp as some handspun contrast might be, but I really like the effect. Started the handspun…
Color blocked version of the Nuvem. Cast on for the #convokal Conversation Knitalong with the Yarnings Podcast. The center is dark gray and then a small bit of gray is between each color block. The edging is the dark gray with almost 2000 beads between a row of every-other stitch and then a bead in…