stv challenge 3
just a wee swatch 6 1/4” x 1 1/4”.
Began | September 5, 2012 |
Finished | September 5, 2012 |
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Edited | September 5, 2012 |
Made for | Sock The Vote |
mods – increased the number of pattern rows to optimize usage of the skeins on hand of my handspun. 1 skein orange+orange, 2 skein orange+pink, 1 skein pink+pink increased the number of repeats in orange+pink to use more. needs blocking.
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…
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…
Silk Garden Lite from a sale bin was a great find. The colors flow so nicely from one to the next, from aqua to pink to fuchsia to warm tan to olive to maroon to pink to a greeny white. The large hook with DK weight made it even more lacy. Listed on etsy, week…
I had this yarn sitting around from a clearance sale, and I needed to make something for my brother’s girlfriend. This was a pattern I’d seen at the library and really liked. I think I’d like to try making it again in the actual yarn it calls for, but hopefully this will soften up and…