Wren Scarf – playtime
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 12, 2010 |
| Finished | May 1, 2010 |
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| Edited | July 12, 2010 |
| Made for | sale |
using the lace from the low tide cardi to make a necklace length cowl to wrap around as many times as there is yarn. I had half a skein left after the low tide, and I love how the Madelinetosh TML shows off in this stitch.
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…
Knit with handspun Sun Valley and their DK base to go with. Planned to continue handspun as far as needed instead of just in the yoke. Did not decrease in the underbust, but added more increases. Underarm patterning section is continued all the way down through handspun. I loved spinning this fiber and I loved…
vanilla socks for the new year. CO 14 st, JMCO. probably 360yds, 4.5oz to start. 43g/1.5oz remain.
Started out doing bottom up with plans to kitchener, but then my cast on wasn’t as pretty as I liked, so I flipped it on end and seamed up the cast on edge for the top. did several tack stitches to define the ears. It’s a little loose after wearing all day, but not bad….
not completely sure of the stats of the skeins. one was a prize, another was an early OFFF purchase that was never added to rav. tan yarn was 130g to begin with, and used all. blue yarn was 144g to begin with, and used 20g