texas watermelons
Began | May 11, 2017 |
Finished | May 7, 2017 |
100% | |
Edited | May 23, 2017 |
Made for | me |
I made a set of potholders for my mother-in-law for just a nice gift for letting us come and stay at their house for a week.
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…
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…
Started Thyme on halloween. Casting on took a while, and the pattern wasn’t very intuitive the first side through. I made a chart to help me, and will upload that to Ravelry or my knitting site soon. Update 11/14: made all 3 pieces – front, back, and stripe for between. Just need to attach together….
Saw this pattern on the Yarn Crawl 2012 at Close Knit and had to make it to match the dress already in process. Using more of the sport-weight cotton to make a hat to match the dress/tunic. Adjusting pattern to make it work with the same feather-and-fan spacing of the dress and my gauge from…
a yearning for Yarnings of pink stripes! gift from Michelle of Berry Colorful Yarnings, with several skeins to give away.