Wenswoolgathering

1 lace weight skein – 3 different scarves

Wen — Sat, 18 May 2013 06:14:24 +0000

I like combining colours and textures to get different looks. I had a skein of lace weight alpaca/silk in a pale lavender which wasn’t quite my colour, so I mixed it with other yarns to produce the following:

1. A silk and alpaca wide woven scarf for summer. This one combines bright pinks and purples with the pale lavender to give a fairly bright summer wrap.

2. This one is soft, fluffy, thick and warm for winter, the lavender is combined with thick undyed mohair and bilberry kid silk haze to give a pale mottled look.

3. This is my latest. It is combined with a dark purple stainless steel/silk to give an interesting texture with a mottled purple look to it.

I used a Fibonacci sequence for the stripes which were formed by dropping the alpaca silk for 2 rows. As the silk/stainless steel is so fine it is almost like breaks in the scarf. I think this will be really effective when worn with dark jumpers and jackets.

A new wurm

Wen — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 06:21:03 +0000

It took me a while but it was an easy knit with only a few decrease rows. I like the way the band sits, it is hemmed by picking up a cast on row stitch with every stitch in the last row of the hem so only ends to be sewn in at the end of the knitting.

2 days on the train = 1 new hat

Wen — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:56:45 +0000

I’m doing a training course an hour by train away from home this week. Tuesday morning I took a circular needle and a ball of Jo Sharp Alpaca Kid Lustre. I cast on as the train pulled out and put it away when the train pulled into my stop. I continued on the way home.

The next morning I decided it was time to start the decreases, I didn’t have a tape measure on me or the pattern. By the time I got home last night I had fastened off the last stitches. It looked a bit big and when I tried it on I realised I had misjudged the length of it so I would have to roll it up a bit more than I had planned. That was ok, however when I washed it the yarn relaxed and it covered my whole head!

I spent the next 15 minutes hand felting it down to a more appropriate size. I dried it on a glass head and I’ve just decided to add a flower that I wore in my hair for my wedding 9 years ago. Its been sitting in a drawer ever since so its time it got some use.