More using up my stash, this time knitting up some small amounts of yarn that I bought at past fiber events.
Little lace scarf 1:
I started knitting this lace pattern scarf over a year ago, made some mistakes, and put it aside. Last week, I determined to finally finish it. I've mislaid the identifying label, but, based on the feel of the beige yarn, I think it's a natural color alpaca, probably purchased at a past Carolina Fiber Fest event.
The asymmetrical lace pattern is "Juliet Scarf" from
Knitting Little Luxuries by Louisa Harding (Interweave Press, 2007, pgs. 80-3). The finished piece blocks out at 5in/13cm wide by 36in/91cm long.
Little lace scarf 2:
This scarf is knitted from 2 skeins of hand-dyed angora rabbit yarn (106 yarns total) that I bought a couple of years ago at Carolina Fiber Fest from Marlene Cicalese. She hand-dyes and spins fiber taken from her angora rabbits. She sells her yarn online at
www.angoraonline.com. The blue shades are mixed with purples to create a fluffy thick and thin yarn.
The pattern is adapted from the "Raindrop Scarf" pattern by Laura Hein Eckel in
Lace One-Skein Wonders,
edited by Judith Durant (Storey Publishing, 2013, pgs. 152-3). I cast on fewer stitches and used only one repeat of the motif so the finished scarf is about half the width of but about 14 inches longer than the original pattern.The finished scarf is 3.25in/8cm wide and 54in/137cm long.
1 comment:
Wow the blue is very nice color, and looks super long but I think it's the picture :) I am glad you got around to finishing them both that is very good to do and glad you are being a good example!
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