Wren Scarf – makebelieve
made 2 scarves from 1 skein; one is shorter without crochet border.
made 2 scarves from 1 skein; one is shorter without crochet border.
Began | July 21, 2010 |
Finished | May 1, 2010 |
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Edited | July 21, 2010 |
Made for | sale |
swatched on several diff sized needles, and the larger swatch was so much more helpful to see this new technique. short rows are rockin’.
Making the elbow-length, long version of this cardigan. 3/15, almost done with the raglan increases. 4/5: Started waist decreases after sleeves divided off. 4/13: finished bottom and used seed stitch for the bottom edge instead of ribbing. Would like to go back and take out the top stitches and make the top trip seed stitch…
used this pattern (Virgil version) as a canvas for my own striping pattern, which doesn’t go all the way down the sweater to use more of the planetarium colorway. Also made long sleeves instead of the shorter ones. my gauge was a little small, so I made the 12-18 size and think it will fit…
Rather than using the cable pattern in the SNB book, I really liked lixolux’s picture and so I tried making a 6 stitch plait (from Knitting on the Edge). That worked out great, I just had to adjust where the cable started by moving a few stitches between the needles, and a little more adjusting…
Adjusted the colors from the original set: Fedora bubbles instead of aqua. And then used more of a graduated color for the stripes. First week of June: Finished sweater. The body of the sweater feels a little short, and I may add a crocheted edging on the bottom.June 16ish: Finished hat. Still need to do…
This will be the mill ends springy colorway I got at OFFF. Should be a nice april project. Can I change this pattern to be toe-up??? 6/7: Close to done, but the adjustments I did for gauge didn’t quite work out on the end of the toe (working toe-down as per the pattern). So I…