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Thursday, 30. March 2006
Me and my promises.
knitting_keeps_me_sane, 15:22h
I must admit; I am a human, and as such I often give promises that I forget to keep. It is a veery long time ago that I promised the ladys in the Spind og Strik gruppe to show my Kiri that was modified into a Kirland shawl when I got bored with the stockinette leaves and decided to put in a shetland lace motif. One row of large holes (dewdrops) and a Madeira motif, and also putting in a little flower (those are cropping up everywhere I can use my imagination) to help me fade out the leaves and not just stop them abruptly.
Excuse the messy photo. It is a wonderfull dark blue in real life, but it isnt a large shawl, it is a small shawl. A shoulder-shawl, if you so want.
Here is another shawl I never ever got around to show even though I had promised it oh-o-much:
The Mystery Stole. It has a nice little story behind its creation, showing, that even though you do not always know to goal when you start your jorney, it might be more than you ever imagined.
My parents took two three-weeks vacations together last year, alone, a thing they havent done for many many years, and which we had all encouraged them to do. My mother left her fiber stash at home... Lonely and unguarded! Sneekily I dug into it and found a really large bag of uncarded, unwashed brown alpaca, stuck my sneeky hand into it and took out a very tiny little small handfull of alpaca. I spun it up very thinly on my lace weight flyer, and when finished I had three skeins of laceweight alpaca.. but what to do with them? They were lovely variegated with the natural colour of the Alpaca that donated the fleece, and plied together without trying to preserve colour changes or anything.
I saw a link to a "Mystery Stole Knit Along" (The original inspiration for the Mystery Shawls Knitalongs etc), and really wanted to join. What yarn, what yarn to use? Oohh, the alpaca! So I sat down to knit it, keeping it with me everywhere I went and sometimes sitting in front of the computer for hours, waiting for new clues to come.
I finished as the first! Woohoo! This most lovely alpaca stole is my most cherished handspun and handknit object. This picture does not at all justify the suble colour hanges, nor does it show the fineness of the 2-ply yarn, or the sheer wonderfull chest-nut colour of the yarn, but it documents that I did indeed knit it... for what it is worth *sigh*
Oohh, and em?
Happy guessing :-)
Excuse the messy photo. It is a wonderfull dark blue in real life, but it isnt a large shawl, it is a small shawl. A shoulder-shawl, if you so want.
Here is another shawl I never ever got around to show even though I had promised it oh-o-much:
The Mystery Stole. It has a nice little story behind its creation, showing, that even though you do not always know to goal when you start your jorney, it might be more than you ever imagined.
My parents took two three-weeks vacations together last year, alone, a thing they havent done for many many years, and which we had all encouraged them to do. My mother left her fiber stash at home... Lonely and unguarded! Sneekily I dug into it and found a really large bag of uncarded, unwashed brown alpaca, stuck my sneeky hand into it and took out a very tiny little small handfull of alpaca. I spun it up very thinly on my lace weight flyer, and when finished I had three skeins of laceweight alpaca.. but what to do with them? They were lovely variegated with the natural colour of the Alpaca that donated the fleece, and plied together without trying to preserve colour changes or anything.
I saw a link to a "Mystery Stole Knit Along" (The original inspiration for the Mystery Shawls Knitalongs etc), and really wanted to join. What yarn, what yarn to use? Oohh, the alpaca! So I sat down to knit it, keeping it with me everywhere I went and sometimes sitting in front of the computer for hours, waiting for new clues to come.
I finished as the first! Woohoo! This most lovely alpaca stole is my most cherished handspun and handknit object. This picture does not at all justify the suble colour hanges, nor does it show the fineness of the 2-ply yarn, or the sheer wonderfull chest-nut colour of the yarn, but it documents that I did indeed knit it... for what it is worth *sigh*
Oohh, and em?
Happy guessing :-)
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