3 posts tagged “cashmere”
Now to just get the addendum to the Spring Forward sock pattern written so that I can post it for all my fellow knitters. I'll have it by next week...I promise!
Hello lovelies! Sometimes I use Flickr as a blog instead of posting here on my craft blog. That is because there are more of my crafty friends on Flickr than there are on Vox and they can easily post comments there. So, before I forget...
Here are some fingerless mitts I've been knitting for my mom. She says that the hospital, in which she receives her chemotherapy treatments, is as cold as an ice box. So, I wanted to make her some nice hand warmers out of the lovely cashmere and silk light-fingering-weight yarn that Amy of www.MadelineTosh.com hand-dyed for me. It has been a lovely experience! The yarn, plus KnitPicks size 0 circular needles and a sock pattern that I adapted to sprout a nice, graduated thumb gusset has yeilded an exceedingly smooth knitting week. The sock pattern, "Spring Forward" by Linda Welch, is found here on Knitty. My Ravelry page has some preliminary notes for this project here. Once I have tested my notes on the second mitt, I'll post instructions (free gratis, of course) for adding the thumb gusset, thus turning them into 'Hand Springs' fingerless mitts.
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My Great-Grandmother used to make a Dewberry Cobbler that was my favorite kind of cobbler in the world while growing up! She would pick the berries from wild Dewberry vines that grew along the road on fences on the way to their lake cabin in Texas.
This hand-dyed yarn's color reminds me of what might have come out of dying with the juices of those berries. In fact, I have had enough of the cobbler juice on my clothes as a kid to know that it is pretty close!!! The color in the photo isn't as purple-wine color as the yarn is in real life...sorry the photos are so dark!
One half of this fiber marriage is reclaimed cashmere yarn from a super-soft sweater! So, it's just luxurious! The second half is HAND CARDED and handspun Llama fiber. The llama is the part that makes this a boucle yarn. When washed after being plied, the cashmere shrinks and the llama forms bumps and loops. It gives a more subtle effect here than in the commercially made boucle, but it's just as interesting!
Well, there's the story of this Dewberry Cobbler yarn. I like to think that my Great-Grandmother would be proud!
This yarn is available in my Etsy shop. More photos there and in my Photos section.
Later!
RM
