8 posts tagged “lace”
Beware of girls with pointy sticks!
Ooooo...yes. Do you know how lovely a 2-ply cashmere and silk blend heavy lace-weight yarn feels? Well you should. It's one of the softest yarns I have had the pleasure of pawing.
My first Hand Springs Fingerless Mitts were made from some hand-dyed by Madeline Tosh. When I was told that they would not be carrying that line of hand-dyed yarn, I looked for another indie dyer.
I found Ellie of Crazy4Dyeing on Ravelry. She agreed to buy the yarn from a supplier and hand-dye it in appealing semi-solids.
She even sent a free skein with which to work another pair of mitts and get the gauge for the pattern! I'm so pleased with this yarn. It's the same weight as the Madeline Tosh yarn I had, so I know the results will be fantastic.
Here is the colorway I chose. The color is actually in-between the two photos, but I couldn't get my color tones just right in only one photo. I really need a light tent with an Ott Light to do it justice.
There are issues with copying and pasting from a word processing document to Vox, so I will only be able to provide you with a downloadable PDF of the pattern, located in my sidebar under My Links. One day after the Holidays I'll type up the whole pattern for you here in my post.
The pattern link is now in Ravelry.com and I have been dubbed an official designer. I guess I'd better start coming up with some original designs now!
Many thanks to my proof readers and test knitters, namely Bonnie, Donna, Jen, Katie, Linda, Sara and Susanna. Especially Linda Welch, who kindly gave permission for me to adapt her lace chart from the Spring Forwards socks. Such a gracious lady.
Also, Ellie of Crazy4Dyeing is now my supplier for the heavier laceweight yarn needed for the size 0 needles! Her new line, ElfinLace is a lovely 2-ply cashmere/silk blend in lovely semi-solids.
I finally worked up the gauge swatch for the Elfin Lace yarn...12 sts, 14 rows in stockinette equals 1 inch. I'll add this information to the PDF as soon as possible.
See THIS post.
Enjoy the pattern!
RM
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.
Click on thumbnails to view larger photos.
Something amusing I found on my MSN homepage today.
Then...here is my little neighbor baby with the green Baby Eyelet Socks that I knitted for her! My first ever pair of socks to have ever completed. She'll be able to wear them by this winter or spring, probably.
Wear them in good health, little Arin!
-RM
(close-ups of the socks-in-progress in my RM Knitting collection.)
I'm knitting some baby socks for a neighbor baby. She's just a newborn, but
by winter she should fit into these. I used acrylic baby yarn because you never know if a little one will be allergic to wool. I'd ask the mother to check her for an allergic reaction, but these are to be a surprise. Oh...by the way...they are of Irish descent and named her Arin, so I chose this lovely green. (click on the thumbnails for larger views.)
So, I read somewhere that if you need 5 dpns and only have 4, you can substitute a 'one size up or down' needle for the 5th needle. I tried it and I think it gives me a very slight irregularity in the stitches. (Which drives the OCD in me buggy!!!) Anyway...it's not perfect, but I'll do even better on my next pair. (And I'll buy a second set of size 0's so I have all the same size needles!)
Oooooo....look! My dream of someone using MY handspun yarn to create a beautiful garment has come to fruition! Altair's Vinyard has become a gorgeous lace scarf! You may remember that I had a swap with Altair for those great Pysanky Eggs. This is what she came up with for the yarn I spun and dyed for her. Altair, you make me proud!!! More photos in the photos section.(Altair's photos blogged with permission.)
